Friday, January 1, 2016
Blue and Ivory
There are many references to blue and ivory in the book and how beautiful it is, even though it is describing a person. Imagining someone to be ivory and blue, the first thing you would imagine is definitely not beautiful and serene in any way, but the way Vonnegut used the words, it gives you a sense of calmness and beauty. "His bare feet were blue and ivory. It was all right, somehow, his being dead. So it goes." (Vonnegut 148) My question is why did Vonnegut describe these moments with a sense of beauty? What was the reasoning? And what is the significance of blue and ivory? It is brought up many times, but always quite subtlety, why is that?
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I think Vonnegut used blue and ivory to show beauty because when his feet and the hobos feet were blue and ivory, it gave Billy a sense that it is okay that they are dead. Even though they died, which is a terrible thing, they produced these beautiful colors. The blue and ivory was a way for Billy to be at ease with the fact that they had died.
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