Interweaving Reality and Fantasy: Dresden's Destruction

At the beginning of the novel the author describes the idea of the book about the bombing of Dresden. The author complains that he could not come up with the right words for this book, which he regarded as his main work. The authors want to reveal the truth of the war to the people, not to glorify war. In his book, he can move back and forth in the reality and the future. In the book, there are lots of images of paradis versus calamity. The book closely intertwined realism, grotesque, fantasy, insanity elements brutal satire and irony.
Billy is one of the main characters in the book, he and other characters trying to return to the womb, they want to return to an eden. In the book, we can find Billy likes to retreat to his room and his magic

More than, the author seems to ensure the recipient that the escapism to the fictional is more acceptable than the realness: “I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.” (Vonnegut). For instance, The first images of paradise versus calamity are the juxtaposition of fantasy, fictional with the unrelenting realness. The image of the main character, an American soldier Billy Pilgrim, who is a little bit absurd, timid, apathetic person. The book describes the adventures of Pilgrim in the war and the bombing of Dresden, which has left an indelible imprint on the mental state of Pilgrim, who was not a very stable child, telling about the aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. This image is contrasted with the realness of dreadful realness in the book. The next contrast is the madness emerged against the background of such a habitual calm routine. The novel can be compared to a metaphor for "home for the insane", where a person is no longer immune to anything to control, even including the time. According to the text, the person has lost that sureness about the peacefulness of the life: “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” (Vonnegut). The novel contains bright anti-militarist character, that shows human impotence in the infinite and soulless world of evil and violence, suffering and senseless victims Such stereotypes as "real men", "tough guys", "heroes", commonly found in books about the war, are absurdly distorted and presented in a rigid parody images captured British and Roland Weary, causing a wry grin. There is no division into "ours" and "enemies", the Germans are displayed as the same ordinary people tortured, incredibly tired of the war, as well as