Entry #12: Cinderella and the Anticipation of Fire-Bombing

"The boots fit perfectly. Billy Pilgrim was Cinderella, and Cinderella was Billy Pilgrim."
Ok Billy, I know that you travel through time and death is pretty irrelevant to you, and the fire-bombing of Dresden is inevitable, but some silver slippers to cover your "blue and ivory" feet should not be your first priority. Pilgrim seems somewhat oblivious to the fact that no one can see into time but him.
Aside from the fact that Dresden and slaughterhouse-five itself is introduced, and the reader develops sympathy for Derby and his impending death, I found this chapter to be a tad bit uninformative. The only abstract idea I can really squeeze out of this chapter is the sadness that befalls the reader knowing the fate of Dresden after it is introduced as war-free, undefended, and peaceful. Once again, I shall tie something in with the life of Billy Pilgrim. Dresden, in a way, is Pilgrim in the way that it was peaceful before being touched by war, or in Billy's case, war AND aliens. So now that from the reader's viewpoint Dresdon is soon to be destroyed, we too have nothing to do but bide the time by looking for silver boots to cover our ivory and blue feet.

Not you Pilgrim; you keep sweeping.