Slaughterhouse Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim who has become “unstuck in time.” Young Billy is born and raised in Ilium‚ New York‚ he is "tall and weak‚ and shaped like a bottle of Coca-Cola‚" and studying to be an optometrist. He is drafted into the U.S. military and despite his scrawny‚ weak build‚ he is sent to Europe to fight. While fighting in Germany‚ Billy is all of a sudden sent to 1968‚ where the plane he was on has crashed into the mountains of Vermont. He becomes aware that we possesses
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world war II‚ was a hard disastrous time in history‚but in the story slaughterhouse-five we learn from another perspective of the author who was sent in for the battle of the bulge and witnessed the bombing of Dresden. The author had many experiences from which he had with world war II‚ he shows what happened and could have been his thoughts throughout the narrator Billy Pilgrim. First‚ Slaughterhouse five says different themes and how they relate to war. Secondly‚ there’s many events from when
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Slaughterhouse-Five‚ by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.‚ is the tale of a gawky World War II veteran/soldier‚ Billy Pilgrim. His wartime experiences and their effects lead him to the ultimate conclusion that war is unexplainable. To portray this effectively‚ Vonnegut presents the story in two dimensions: historical and science-fiction. The irrationality of war is emphasized in each dimension by contrasts in its comic and tragic elements. The historical seriousness of the Battle of the Bulge and the bombing of
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anti-war song goes‚ “War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!” and if Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five had a theme song‚ this would be the perfect song. Slaughterhouse Five is one of the greatest anti-war books of all time- it even says so on the back cover. In order to convey his anti-war attitude to the readers‚ Vonnegut uses many different rhetorical devices in Slaughterhouse Five‚ including analogy‚ irony‚ and satire. The first important rhetorical device Vonnegut uses to convey his
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Inside a fantasy world of time travel‚ aliens‚ and porn stars‚ Kurt Vonnegut delivers an iron hard moral statement on the aftermath of war in his novel‚ Slaughterhouse-Five. We follow the fictional character‚ Billy Pilgrim‚ as he struggles‚ like Vonnegut did‚ to discover the purpose of life. Kurt Vonnegut uses Slaughterhouse-Five as a way to cope with his experience in the Dresden massacre. By taking the narrator’s voice‚ and by employing the themes of time and fate‚ Kurt Vonnegut seeks to reach
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Kurt Vonnegut‚ the author of Slaughter-house Five‚ wrote several novels compacted into one whole novel to convey a different perspective on a specific view controversial to many. Slaughter-house Five is metafiction that talks about Vonnegut’s experience in the war. Throughout the story‚ we follow Billy Pilgrim as he experienced several events in the war and ultimately the bombing of Dresden. Through several characters‚ dialogue and events we are presented within the novel‚ we get the use of several
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write Slaughterhouse-Five‚ a fictionalized account of the fire bombing of Dresden and about the destructiveness of war. Slaughterhouse-Five has been widely criticized and condemned‚ and according to June Edwards‚ “The book is an indictment of war‚ criticizes government action‚ is anti-American‚ and is unpatriotic.”(Schmidt‚ 121). These charges and accusations just help support Vonnegut’s idea that different political ideologies help fuel war and its horrors. In Slaughterhouse-Five the main character
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Kurt Vonnegut breaks the conventional rules of storytelling in his novel‚ Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut does so because he was not able to write a standard novel on the bombing of Dresden‚ which he tried to do many times. Additionally‚ Vonnegut wants his novel to be an anti-war novel‚ he wants it to explain the bombing of Dresden and the atrocious things both sides did. His purpose for writing this novel was to have Billy Pilgrim‚ the main character‚ accept the bombing because Vonnegut learns to
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Slaughterhouse-Five explores fate‚ free will‚ and the illogical nature of human beings. Protagonist Billy Pilgrim is unstuck in time‚ randomly experiencing the events of his life‚ with no idea of what part he will next visit. Billy Pilgrim says there is no free will‚ an assertion confirmed by a Tralfamadorian‚ who says‚ "I’ve visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will." The story’s central concept is that most of humanity is insignificant--they
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