The Post-War Felling

Chapter 1 of Slaughter House- Five is a chapter of the book, which was written at the end of the book when the other chapters were already completed, since at the end of the chapter it states: “It begins like this: Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. It ends like this: Poo-tee-weet?” (Slaughter House- Five, chapter 1, pg 22). And with these lines it’s referring on how the book starts and ends.
When I began to read this chapter I found that in order to really understand it I had to know what was Dresden: “The bombing of Dresden by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force between 13 February and 15 February 1945, remains one of the more controversial Allied actions of the Western European theatre of war. The inner city of Dresden was largely destroyed by 800 RAF and USAAF bombers that let loose 650,000 incendiaries and 8,000lb of high explosives and hundreds of 4,000lb bombs[15] in three waves of attacks — approximately one bomb for every two people. Early reports estimated 150,000 to 250,000 deaths” (Wikipedia)
When the war is over and the main character decided to write a book about the war in Dresden there certainly is a clear after or post war feeling. He tries to think about things that he remembers from the war and he realizes that he does not remember most of things. And he also realizes that he cannot find any good memory of the war. He is searching for people to help him and they make him realize that the war had no good factors, and that he should write an anti-war book. He does know that he may not have enough words or memories to fulfill the whole book, and there for thinks he is not going to be able to write a book.
The theme about war and the idea that there is nothing good about it is clearly related to Mary since she finds and expresses that many babies were killed in the war and that it was not fair. That she was simply mad at many of the people who fought in the war just because of going, since they had no good reason of why to do so. But also as to the main character having gone to war and having to face such struggles made him have a new and different point of view towards war, and towards the decision that his country made to be involved in the war.