The cattle are lowing,
The Baby awakes.
But the little Lord Jesus
No crying he makes.
Vonnegut explains that the epigraph for this book is the quatrain from this famous Christmas Carol. "Billy cried very little, though he often saw things worth crying about, and in that respect, at least, he resembled the Christ of the carol." Vonnegut has tried to make the reader view Billy with sympathy in an attempt to make him resemble Christ. Billy is also compared to Christ in the way that he has tried to spread his message about time although his journey had left him ridiculed. Through his ridicule and suffering, it seems that Billy is made stronger. In the end, he agrees that the destruction of Dresden was for the best. This reminded me of how Christ had to die on the cross in order for salvation to be possible.
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