Chapter One-Hyperbole

The hyperbole that Vonnegut expresses through "a million laughs" that he shared with his friend O'Hare foreshadows the many humorous stories that are to come later in the novel. Vonnegut says that O'Hare and himself could not remember any stories about the war or Dresden so they casually begin to talk about things that do not relate to the war. However when Vonnegut says "Recently I went back to Dresden with my friend O'Hare. We had a million laughs in Hamburg and West Berlin and East Berlin and Vienna and Salzburg and Helsinki, and in Leningrad, too. It was very good for me, because I saw a lot of authentic backgrounds for stories which I will write later on." an ironic situation arises because we were just told that Vonnegut's conversation with O'Hare did not arouse any memories but it obviously did because after their converstion he had ideas for stories in his novel. This hyperbole emphasizes to the reader how many stories will arise throughout the course of the novel as a result of Vonnegut's time with O'Hare.

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