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What does "So it goes" mean? The narrator seems to say that every time someone dies, so I was wondering what it meant.
Jordyn "So it goes" means life goes on. As the author states it the book, it is in fact an anti war book and interpret the use of the satirical motif to repr…more"So it goes" means life goes on. As the author states it the book, it is in fact an anti war book and interpret the use of the satirical motif to represent how war has taken something such as death, which is so drastic and made it so meaningless.(less)
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