“Roguish fauns and naked nymphs peeked down at Billy
from festooned cornices” (Vonnegut 95). Billy is so enchanted by the city’s
architecture. This quotation makes me think of the movie Hunchback of Notre Dame. It seems as if the statues are coming
alive and watching Billy as he walks through Dresden. I was not very sure of
what cornices were but after a little research I found that it is the
horizontal molded projection that crowns a building. On the Americans entrance
to Dresden, it seemed as if everyone was staring at them including the architecture.
Dresden had this magical appearance to the prisoners of war because it was one
of the few European cities not influenced or harmed by war, yet. Everything was
so peaceful so it gave the city a dreamlike appearance.
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