Slaughterhouse-Five Extended Metaphor

"It was realized then that ther was no food or water, and that the survivors, if they were going to survive, were going to have to climb over curve after curve on the face of the moon." p.180

This is one of the metaphors that is often repeated in referring to Dresden. This metaphor, is again, to attack war. Through his comparison, Vonnugut is saying, this isn't Earth; this is something foreign. There are no people, there is no food or water, they aren't crawling over holes but over a "curve on the face of the moon". We don't need to travel to Tralfamadore to find another planet; we do it to ourselves. Vonnegut also is saying that nuclear disarming is not the answer. Dresden was done with weapons that are called conventional. Although they are conventional, they killed hundreds of thousands in Dresden.