Slaughterhouse-Five Fourth Reading Entry

Billy is taken to a British camp where they have sympathy for him due to the fact that he's in a horrible state. They ask him why he has that coat given to him by "Jerry" (Germany), when they were trying to make fun of him. Billy still doesn't seem to care about anything. The British tell him this and he's completely indifferent to this, as well as to everything.

The author mentions that after laughing so hard in the Cinderella production, Billy had to be given morphine, making him dream things out of this world. Is there some special significance that the author is trying to give to this dream? To the giraffes in the dream? What's the purpose for putting them in the story. After this billy travels in time again to when he's in the Ilium hospital. I guess every place he visits has some special importance to him, in this case he discovers his favorite books are science-fiction books. Other important (significant) trips for him might have been the one with his family to the Grand Canyon, where he remebers a French tourist asking if people ever killed themselves by jumping off. The author once again mentions "So it goes" but now he doesn't mention it when just people die, but when material things "die". For example, the dead champagne in chapter 4. What it really means is that there's no gas in the champagne but the author still uses "so it goes". Does this represent the idea that we can't change anything, that we must accept the facts by saying "so it goes"?

Billy is shown in a Tralfamadorian zoo, where "people" ask him questions. He tries to figure some stuff out about time and life and the Universe, but the Tralfamadorians already know anything, so they just tell him every answer but tell him to forget it because it's already happening. I would get pretty annoyed if they would keep giving me the same answer, that every moment will always happen. If you know that you are going to destroy the universe, you might as well try and stop it from happening. What I mean is you don't have the power to change a lot of things, but when you have the chance to make a difference, one should try to do it.