Vonnegut describes the aftermath of the Dresden firebombing during which 135,000 people were killed. Both seem to go on with their lives as if it's all part of the plan and death is unavoidable. 'Poo-tee-weet' bird in Cats Cradle, the teacup-trained prothonotary. Perhaps Vonnegut is connecting the birds to the Tralfamadorians. To birds, the firebombing was just another event in their lives, so they should just go on tweeting like they knew it would happen anyways. With nothing to say about the horrific bombing themselves, the survivors can only remain silent, but birds are never silenced.
Furthermore, he ends the story exactly how he said he would, and how I had been anticipating for some time, with a bird. Vonnegut ends his novel with the word 'Poo-tee-weet' because 'there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.' In effect, Vonnegut is saying that war makes no sense, and there is nothing. It ends like this: Poo-tee-weet?"Īs a way of connecting the overall frame story from chapter one when it seemed Vonnegut himself would be the main character, he returns to his story at the end to connect with Billy Pilgrim. However, the bird breaks the silence, just like Vonnegut said it would, by saying "Poo-tee-weet." On page 22, Vonnegut says, "It begins like this: Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. On page 215, the survivors of the massacre are clouded in silence: they do not know what to say. i have been wanting to get the phrase -so it goes- tattooed on my bod and i. On page 19, Vonnegut says, "And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like 'Poo-tee-weet?'" Vonnegut directly foreshadows what will later happen in the book. kurt vonneguts novel slaughterhouse-five has been a major influence in my life. In chapter 1, Vonnegut uses the phrase "Poo-tee-weet?" twice, located on pages 19 and 22. As a way of continuing his return into the book's forefront, Vonnegut ended the book just how he said he would at the beginning. However, Vonnegut's purpose with this phrase is directly outlined in Chapter One. In 1950 he sold his first story, Report on the Barnhouse Effect, to Colliers. Again, a casual reader would find "Poo-tee-weet?" to be a rather strange way to end the book. In 1947 Vonnegut became a public relations writer for General Electric, based in Schenectady, New York State. One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, 'Poo-tee-weet?'" (215). Vonnegut's conclusion of the book is, "Birds were talking. After studying chapter after chapter, I knew how the book would end, and I knew what word would be used. For me, however, I knew the phrase was coming all along. Interesting, that is, to the casual reader who skimmed through just to finish reading for the sake of finishing. In chapter 10 of Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut concludes the book with a rather interesting phrase.
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