A Pillar of Salt.

Kurt Vonnegut ends his first Dresden war book like this:"I've finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun. This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt." Now, I wouldn't say its a failure, but it is written as if it was sort of a journal and not a novel. I can't see much emotion in that first Dresden war book. This may be intended to be so, he's just saying how he wrote the novel, instead of really telling the novel, since he knows that it was a failure. What really caught my attention about how Vonnegut ends the novel was "The Pillar of Salt". In the Bible, when Sodom and Gommorrah are destroyed by God because they are full of sinners, the few people who are told to leave the city are also told not to turn around and look at the destruction of the city, however, some of them do look back and are turned into pillars of salt. Kurt Vonnegut says at the beginning of the first chapter (also the first novel) that he knew that writing a book about Dresden would make him rich, but when he starts, he realizes that he cannot look back to the war. First of all, he has forgotten everything, and when he turns to his friends to remember he finds that he has changed, and that his friends have changed as well because of the war. They've all turned into pillars of salt, and when he realizes it he gives up with his first book because he realizes that it was written by a pillar of salt.