Death is absolute. Kurt Vonnegut questions this fundamental principle in his novel Slaughterhouse Five. The plot revolves around a soldier, Billy Pilgrim, who encounters the Tralfamadorians, an alien race, who alter his perception of time and reality. Kurt Vonnegut coins the phrase "So it goes," which serves to equalize all deaths and lessen their severity, creating a satirical social commentary on the insignificance of human misery. The phrase "So it goes" is used extensively in Slaughterhouse. - 5, and essentially devalues ​​every event that precedes it. The following quote is an anecdote from one of the narrator's gruesome experiences after World War II. “The elevator door on the first floor was made of ornamental iron lace. Iron ivy snaked in and out of the holes. There was an iron twig on which two iron lovebirds were perched. This veteran decided to take his car into the basement, closed the door and drove away, but his wedding ring got caught in all the ornaments. So he was lifted into the air and the floor of the car fell, fell from underneath him, and the top of the...