Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 10 Post 1 of 2

      "Birds were talking. One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, 'Poo-tee-weet?'," (Vonnegut, 215). The silence of post-massacre is broken by one bird. The silence is also broken by Vonnegut. Vonnegut has filled in the silence of post-war with his words of the book. This one bird, with the unanswerable question, "Poo-tee-weet?" This bird is a symbol of the emptiness after a war. The bird and its question symbolize the warning Vonnegut gave at the beginning of the novel: there is nothing intelligent to say about a war. This bird calls to break that post-war hypnotism, yet it cannot be broken. The memories of war will always stay their. In summation, the bird's odd song symbolizes the forever, yet unquenchable aftermath of war and a massacre.