Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
everything was destroyd. It has no stratigical value, there was no point of destroying it. The
novel also has a subtitle-the children's crusade. the meaning of the subtitle is partly explained
in the prologue. Billy pilgrim visits a friend of his to talk about his war experience before
writing the novel. The friends wife mary does not like the idea of a book about war-because
these books glorify war. Calls the young men babies in the war, they were very young. She
afraids that this gloryfication will send more children into more wars. But the subtitle is also
historical allusion. In 1213 two monks decided to gather a army of children-poor, orphans,
beggars-the wanted to sell the children to north africa as slaves, to clean europe. 30 000
children were gathered but the ships were horrible quality and half of them died and half of
them were sent to be slaves. Billy is a childs name, grawny, like a crusader starts a holy
mission, as a chaplain's assistans
annaabi.ee 
