Overview Of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

To sum up, Kurt Vonnegut uses Billy Pilgrim to represent soldiers in wars to deliver Slaughterhouse Five as an anti-war book. Since this is an anti-war novel, the author does the opposite what a war novel does, he creates an anti-hero, Billy, who lacks the ideal characteristics of a hero. The novel portrays the unattractiveness of male physiques under stress through emphasizing Billy's unkempt body throughout the book. Opposite to Billy's terrible figure, the soldiers with huge muscles are the Englishmen, who want to fight, but cannot. In conclusion, the fictional character Billy helps Vonnegut create a successful anti-war novel through destroying the heroic-stereotypes of soldiers fighting wars, and at the same time, questions the validity