It has become pretty clear to me now what the major theme and message of the book is how irrational war is. Through his conversations with the aliens and his very random states of mind. By down playing the facts and horrific details of the war and the bombing of Dresden with such strange experiences with aliens and then random other stories from his childhood and his life as an optometrist it shows how irrational and unnecessary war really is.When I first picked up the book I had heard many things about how this is one of the greatest anti-war books of its time, but until now I didn't really understand how. Just by the fact of how Billy ended up in a mental institution and thought that he could travel in time is an indication of what war can do to a person. Although it was extremely obvious how the main character was affected, the book did not go into detail about the specifics of what made him the way he was. This is a key part to how he actually feels about war in general.
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