"You lads are leaving this afternoon for Dresden-- a beautiful city, I'm told." pg 146 an englishman
There are several settings in this book but most of them are either in Illium, Germany, and Tralfamadore. Illium represents what most people view as real life. It is your average American town where people have average jobs such as optomitrists. However, this life doesn't show the real cruelty of humans and the harsh reality of life. Dresden and the other parts of Germany represent that true reality. It shows all the death and despair humans are capable of inflicting on one another. This is a place far from home and unfamiliar. No one is clean or happy, and they are all on edge. These circumstances represent the truth about life in war and the truth about terrible reality. Tralfamadore is obviously not real, but it represents one of the most realistic aspects of life. Tralfamadore represents life as a whole and its overall value instead of what we see in each part of it. It also introduces life as everlasting. Even though they say they aren't very interested in Jesus Christ their ideas about life most resemble that of the Christian faith. All of these settings show a different aspect of life and how it's viewed in different situations. All have elements of realism, but also offer a different prospective of it.
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