Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 1 Post 2 of 2

     An interesting component Vonnegut puts into the primary chapter of Slaughterhouse is the mention of how he vows to call his book The Children's Crusade. Vonnegut vows this to make sure he does not glorify the war, or him and his fellow soldiers. I thought this was a very interesting detail. The soldiers, naive and scared as children, were blundering into war. As I was reading this my mind jumped to make a somewhat stretched connection to an interview I had recently watched. The interview was with the lead singer of the All American Rejects, Tyson Ritter. Ritter was speaking about the band's new record and with regard to its meaning. Ritter said that it was about the metamorphosis from a kid to an adult. This detail that really struck me is how Ritter said that even as an adult, their are times when you revert back to that childish or naive way of life.
    Ritter then elaborated of the time in his life when he moved out to Los Angeles and got caught up in poisonous temptations. Growing up in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Ritter had not really been exposed to the wickedness of a large city. Ritter said that when he moved out there he was like a kid again, with no inhabitions. This can be related to Vonnegut's title of book The Children's Crusade in the regard that him and his fellow comrades had never experienced that war. Therefore, as they ventured into the battlefield, it was like they were an unknowing, unrestrained kid again. Though the relationship between war and LA are very different and the comparison is somewhat crude, the overall principles are the same. Tyson Ritter's experience does not represent a different lesson than Vonnegut's crusade in SH 5.