slaughter house 5
World History Period. 2 March 25, 2012
Historical Analysis Slaughterhouse Five is a novel based off of the fire-bombing of Dresden. This story depicts the horrors of World War Two and the mental turmoil that it caused some of the soldiers that fought in it. Slaughterhouse Five teaches us how anyone can be changed by war not matter what your circumstances before it. War is an atrocity that is commonly glorified in today’s world for no good reason. It not only kills millions but wounds everyone. The thing that I can take away from this story is, war changes people, and not for the better. This novel shows and explains how certain parts of wars have significant effects on soldiers such as witnessing the genocide of a race or the massacre of women and children. I think that other people would take the same thing away and if not I think what they would get out of this story is the cruelty of the world’s finest nations during war. This novel only addresses one man’s look on one major battle during WW2. I believe that if Kurt Vonnegut would have written this novel where the main character played a larger role in the war then I believe we would have been able to take away a deeper meaning to what he is trying to express through this story.
To me what Slaughterhouse five says about war is it’s a terrible place to be and an even worse thing to be a part of. War solves nothing and only creates destruction. No part of WW2 should be glorified. It had no amazing turn out. It should be frowned upon instead of being loved by so called “war fanatics”. Another thing this story says about war is how it can change people so much that they aren’t the same person when they returned.
This story was historically significant in the way that the author of this story is a really victim and survivor of the fire-bombing of Dresden. HE gives the story historic factual information. He also includes himself in the early chapters of the story so you understand that once he starts
Historical Analysis Slaughterhouse Five is a novel based off of the fire-bombing of Dresden. This story depicts the horrors of World War Two and the mental turmoil that it caused some of the soldiers that fought in it. Slaughterhouse Five teaches us how anyone can be changed by war not matter what your circumstances before it. War is an atrocity that is commonly glorified in today’s world for no good reason. It not only kills millions but wounds everyone. The thing that I can take away from this story is, war changes people, and not for the better. This novel shows and explains how certain parts of wars have significant effects on soldiers such as witnessing the genocide of a race or the massacre of women and children. I think that other people would take the same thing away and if not I think what they would get out of this story is the cruelty of the world’s finest nations during war. This novel only addresses one man’s look on one major battle during WW2. I believe that if Kurt Vonnegut would have written this novel where the main character played a larger role in the war then I believe we would have been able to take away a deeper meaning to what he is trying to express through this story.
To me what Slaughterhouse five says about war is it’s a terrible place to be and an even worse thing to be a part of. War solves nothing and only creates destruction. No part of WW2 should be glorified. It had no amazing turn out. It should be frowned upon instead of being loved by so called “war fanatics”. Another thing this story says about war is how it can change people so much that they aren’t the same person when they returned.
This story was historically significant in the way that the author of this story is a really victim and survivor of the fire-bombing of Dresden. HE gives the story historic factual information. He also includes himself in the early chapters of the story so you understand that once he starts