Refusing to join Campbell's unit, he implies that Nazism is a disease which wants to infect the whole world but will be destroyed by the Americans and Russians. This comparison adds more emotion and shows the hatred towards Nazism.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Implied Metaphor in Chapter 8
In chapter eight, Howard Campbell, the American who had become a Nazi, spoke to the prisoners in the slaughterhouse. He asked them to join a unit called The Free American Corps to fight on the Russian Front promising them food and repatriation after the war. It was then when Edgar Derby stood up and "spoke of the brotherhood between the American and the Russian people, and how those two nations were going to crush the disease of Nazism, which wanted to infect the whole world."
Refusing to join Campbell's unit, he implies that Nazism is a disease which wants to infect the whole world but will be destroyed by the Americans and Russians. This comparison adds more emotion and shows the hatred towards Nazism.
Refusing to join Campbell's unit, he implies that Nazism is a disease which wants to infect the whole world but will be destroyed by the Americans and Russians. This comparison adds more emotion and shows the hatred towards Nazism.
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I agree that Vonnegut uses satire here to attack Nazism. Also, I was struck by Edgar Derby's actions in this chapter. Even Vonnegut admits that it was the only time in the entire novel where a character acted as a moral hero.
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