The first comparison that can be drawn from the novel falls on page 21. On this page is the biblical reference about Sodom and Gomorrah. It discusses how the Heavens above rained fire and brimstone and the people and places below. This is exactly what the destruction of Dresden was; fire and brimstone being dropped from the Heavens, or just U.S. and British planes. After the passage, Vonnegut writes, AThose were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them.@ A quote from Ira C. Eaker on page 187 goes on to say, AI deeply regret that U.S. and British bombers killed 135,0

00 people on the attack of Dresden, but I remember who started the last war and I regret even more the loss of more than 5,000,000 Allied lives in the necessary effort to completely defeat and utterly destroy Nazism.@ The comparison in these two passages from the book, also highlight the similarities between Sodom and Gomorrah, and Dresden. They show that they were both necessary to completely eliminate any evil in the city. This is not where the comparison of Billy comes in to play though. What is not said in the passage on page 21 is that Lott=s wife is left alive, and told never to look back where all the destruction had occurred. What is not said in the quote from Eaker, is that Billy too was a survivor from the biblical proportion attacks that he witnessed. Lott=s wife may have been told not to look back at Sodom and Gomorrah, but after Dresden, everybody chose not to look back. Lott=s wife did look back, and what happened to her? She was turned to a pillar of salt. On page 22 it is said about the novel, AThis one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written as a pillar of salt.@ This makes a direct comparison between Billy and Lott=s wife. Vonnegut used this novel as his way of looking back at what had happened, and used Billy as his main character. What is being said is that Billy is no better than a pillar of salt, because he is Vonnegut looking back. He is no different from Lott=s wife, who looked back at the mass destruction she had witnessed. This brings up the question, is Billy one in the same people as Lott=s wife? This question can never be answered, but there are strong suggestions that might make many believe it is true.

Another possibility, is that Billy is really the Alost boy@ of Kurt Vonnegut. Both of these men were drafted at a young age. This means that they were both sent to war at such a young age. Neither of them though that war would be too harsh. Billy wasn=t even ever supposed to be fighting, that was pure luck. Not thinking that war would be too harsh, they both witnessed and sur

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