Oh How Ironic

As  I read through chapter 6 many important things transpired. In my reading I could not overlook the dramatic irony used in this chapter. The instance that stood out to me was when the englishmen was telling Billy about Dresden. He specifically told them "'you needn't worry about bombs, by the way. Dresden is an open city. It is undefended, and contains no war industries or troop concentrations of any importance'"(146). But after reading this I recalled that Vonnegut explicitly pointed out that there WAS a bombing in Dresden. Thus these poor characters don't know they are about to be bombed. But the reader knows their unfortunate fate....so it goes.