Narrator and “Poo-tee-weet?”

When I was reading the end of the book I encountered 2 things that really interested me. The first one was that finally here I can see that the narrator of the story was Vonnegut, and that Billy Pilgrim and Kurt Vonnegut is not the same person!! Here is the proof: “Now Billy and the rest were being marched into the ruins by their guards. I was there. O'Hare was there.”(Chapter 10) This means that Vonnegut was part of the story, that he was always there and that he saw and was present in most of the events that occurred during the novel. What Vonnegut did was tell the story of one of the soldiers that attended. And at the beginning of the book in chapter 1 he says that he has changed all the names, so Billy Pilgrim could be his friend or just some person he encountered during the war.

And then the second interesting thing that I found was the ending of the book which was: “Poo-tee-weet?” (Chapter 10) First of all it is important to state that the bird said this. Then also we have to have cleared that in pg 19 Vonnegut says: “There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre …. Everything is supposed to be quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.” This also means that when the massacre ended and that when the birds said this they meant to say something like; no what’s next? Or what are we supposed to do now? The birds are known to be the symbol of happiness and joy, so after this happened they were not really affected adding the fact that whom dies were the humans not the birds. So this is like a what happened is in the past, we are now in the present and what will be our plan for the future?