What Are The Final Words Of Slaughterhouse Five?
What Are The Final Words Of Slaughterhouse Five? The meaninglessness of the massive loss of human life is encapsulated in the phrase “poo-tee-weet”—and the unnecessary nature of war, in general, is what Vonnegut captures by closing his novel by the words. What are Billy’s final words? Billy Budd’s own last words, “God bless Captain Vere!“