Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
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. He becomes perfect embodyment of vonnegut idea of baby
in the war, a child in the war. Ofcoruse the novel isn't just about dresden, its much wider.
Gives broader depiction of human nature. Billy becomes modern pilgrim, progressing through
absurd world. He travels through an absurd world, except that the doesn't progress at all, he
doesn't progress, doesn't go and achieve much and go very far. Innocent adam, falling into
annaabi.ee 
