Slaughter House Five: Chapter 6

This chapter contains a lot of death. I think it has something to do with the fact that the narrator is finally introducing Dresden. He is linking these two because of the inevitable destruction that eventually takes place in this town.
We see Billy Pilgrim's death in this chapter as well. He has by then become famous for his talks about time and Tralfamadore, and is doing a speech in Chicago. This is when something weird happens. Up till now, the narrator has kept true to the events of history. Obviously, this splitting up of America into 20 states is something completely fictitious that he makes up. Why though? Somewhere, I think the narrator developed a strong hate for the United States. "The United States of America has been Balkanized, has been divided into twenty petty nations so that it will never again be a threat to world peace." (Vonnegut 142)
This is what the narrator wants to happen. The destruction of Dresden marked him so heavily that he began to see his own country as a threat to world peace. I mentioned in my blog of chapter 1 that the bombing of Dresden seems to have had an enormous impact on the writer, so much so that he cannot even write about it. This hate for America is a clear demonstration of the impact the bombing of Dresden had on the author.