A little bit of Slaughter Five...

Slaughterhouse Five has really grabbed my attention. Its not the type of book that I´m used to reading but its pretty nice to change and read different things once in a while. What has mostlly grabbed my attention is how the author writes, and the patterns that I have found while reading the book. For example, "so it goes...". It is a frase that continues to repeat itself, and while reading I began to question myself about what it meant. Until finally they say that "so it goes" is a frase that the Trafaldorians say when soemone dies. This is because they say that "when a person dies he only appears to die. He´s still much very alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral." "When a Trafaldorian sees a corpse all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that moment, but that the person is just fine in other particular moments." I found this EXTREMELY interesting.

Since we were little we have been taught that death is something very sad and tragic (I agree). But this idea made me question myself, how would everything be if we weren´t taught those type of things? Could we believe that maybe death is a happy thing? If we read what the Trafaldorians say, it might seem ridiculous and just fiction to us. But this has made reflect upon how we kind of live in a bubble and that we are very close minded to other explanations and possibilities, no matter what you believe.