#12-The End of two Children's Crusade

Having hacked and chopped this novel into bite-sized pieces, Slaughterhouse has delivered the last of its content(s), and so it's sad to say that Ellana and Ceci  are closing the butchery.

Ceci has already written what was supposed to be 'The End', so I'll keep this short :3

'Slaugherhouse-Five', or 'The Children's Crusade', continues to be one of my favorite novels though I've probably read it more times than should be considered healthy. Vonnegut is one of those rare authors from whose novels you can learn something new from each time you read one, and, even more interestingly, your depth of understanding and appreciation for each novel increases with each other Vonnegut novel you read. I think this speaks to the interwovenness of life as a whole, that everyone has a story completely seperate to those around them, though there's frequent cameos, even though you don't really need to know how anyone else got where they are.
The last phrase in the book, the sound made by the bird, 'Po-tee-weet?' has always reminded me of the Beatles song 'Blackbird', whose central message I think really applies to Billy Pilgrim, not the least way in that Billy, as well as the reader of the novel, already knew how the novel would end and were 'only waiting for this moment to arrive'

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Black bird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
all your life
you were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

And so, we've come to the end of the end, although The End has already been written to it's end, it wasn't really the end of this blog. And that's the story.

The End.

-Ellana