"One bird said to Billy Pilgrim: 'Poo-tee-weet?'" (pg.215)
This is a reoccurring theme throughout the novel. Again and again this bird appears and says the exact same thing. While doing so, it helps reveal the theme of the novel. The theme is that there are minimal intelligent things to say about a war. All it is is a massacre of fellow humans. Birds have nothing to say about it, and neither do smart humans. Vonnegut is very anti-war throughout the book. He also reveals this theme by the progression and drastic change in Billy Pilgrim's life.
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