Slaughterhouse Five - Simile

"The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of the zipper on the fly of the Almighty God." (pg. 34)

This quote is an example of a simile. The author uses lots of figurative language throughout the book. In this example, the author is comparing the sound of a gun to the zipper on God's pants. Usually, a simile would compare something foreign to something that the reader would understand. However, neither of the parts of this simile would probably be something a reader would be familiar with. The use of two unfamiliar parts of a simile show how the sound was so foreign to Weary. A reader could imagine either sound, but not really know how they would sound. Weary had imagined how a gun would sound when he fired it, but he did not truly understand.