Alussion

Throughout chapter one Billy Pilgrim alludes to numerous amounts of literature. However, the one alussion that stuck with me was when O'Hare refers to a passage about the crusades. In this passage it describes the horrors of war and exactly what role crusades played. In the passage it states, "History in her solemn page informs us that the crusaders were but ignorant and savage men"(Vonnegut 15). This passage supports Mary O'Hare's argument about how books and movies wrongly portray war. Most novels and films explain how crusades are great soldiers that helped the Church, but were actually cruel men. This is why she is against writing or portraying war in any way.