Chapter Six: Live Life to the Fullest!

    Freshman year of health class, I learned about the quality of life. Quality of life is the personal satisfaction in one's life. The quality of life is very important idea that helps one to live a longer and easier life. An example to raise one's quality of life is one quitting to smoke. If one quits smoking, then his or her life and the lives of others will be better and pain free. In chapter six, Vonnegut writes, "What the Englishman said about survival was this: 'If you stop taking pride in your appearance, you will very soon die.' He said that he had seen several men die in the following way: 'They ceased to stand up straight, then ceased to shave or wash, then ceased to get out of bed, then ceased to talk, then died. There is this much to be said for it: it is evidently a very easy and painless way to go'" (145). The prisoners of war were obviously depressed from lack of comfort, food, and love. They found no reason to continue to live a depressed life. The Englishman motivated them out of their depression. Clearly, the Englishmen needed prisoners to stay alive and healthy, so that they could be used as laborers.