Chapter Three: Moody

     Billy Pilgrim and the rest of the American soldiers continued to march towards Germany. Vonnegut created an atmosphere of delight. Vonnegut created a mood of pleasure by describing Billy's experience saying, "Billy found the afternoon stingingly exciting. There was so much to see-dragon's teeth, killing machines, corpses with bare feet that were blue and ivory" (65). Normally, people do not describe an experience involving corpses to be "exciting." Vonnegut continues to use his unusual dictation by describing Billy's attitude saying, "Billy beamed lovingly at a bright lavender farmhouse that had been spattered with machine-gun bullets" (65). Why would Billy Pilgrim be happy at the sight of seeing death and machines that could possible kill him? I would predict that Vonnegut used the positive word choice to show the audience how Pilgrim is not used to seeing this atmosphere. Usually, when I see something for the first time like a fast and big roller coaster, I become excited and hyper. Vonnegut is trying to represent that same feel of excitement of seeing something big and uncommon for the first time.