In the novel “So it goes”, was used by Vonnegut to illustrate the irony of life. The author uses this expression where one can’t find a logical explanation for the strange things that happen in life. Like in the following passage from his novel, Slaughterhouse – Five, Vonnegut writes, Weary was as new to the war as Billy. He was a replacement, too” (Vonnegut 34). Following this the author goes on to define that one act of anger in the war that Weary took part in, firing of a single 57mm round from his anti-tank gun at a German Tiger tank. The fired round, releasing flame and hot gases, melted the snow and vegetation in front of the any-tank gun leaving a “black arrow on the ground, showing the Germans exactly where the gun was hidden. The shot