An Undeserving Town, Bombed

In this chapter we encounter the bombing of Dresden that we have been anticipating for a while. In the first chapter Vonnegut makes a reference to the Bible story about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. In the biblical passage God rains down on the city for the vile things they had done. Thus they were deserving of destruction and chaos. As we learn in this chapter the people that were in Dresden the day of the bombing were innocent, undeserving victims. Vonnegut is able to engage the reader by making this reference and make the reader think throughout the story about this unfortunate event,