Slaughterhouse Five Critique

Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Dirty Dance With Death was written by Kurt Vonnegut and originally published in March of 1969. It’s a dark humor science fiction story that exactly fits Vonnegut's writing style: funny, astounding and makes you question the human race as a whole. The book follows a the lifespan Billy Pilgrim of Ilium, New York. He grew up to be an optometrist,served his country at war, got married, had children and aged to an old man. But his life was not ordinary at all. The books focuses on his experiences serving in World War Two, and his unintentional and unexpected time travel through his own life. Billy Pilgrim’s war experiences are told in an unusual way in comparison to the other books and movies being made about war
That small ability to look back and reminisce is usually a really good time, witch in Slaughterhouse Five proves to be one of the only, if any, good things to come out of the war. Making the small and weak argument that Slaughterhouse Five is a book promoting war in any sort of positive way. The many different pieces of anti war claims found throughout the pages of Slaughterhouse Five connect together to make one hell of a convincing argument for it being an anti war book. One example is how veteran of the war, and all wars are now scarred forever with horrific images of war. This quote shows now how a very unpleasant scene of death that Vonnegut comes across in his job as a journalist doesn't even affect him, for her has memories of stuff so much worse than a man crushed to death between two elevator doors: When I got back to the office, the woman writer asked me, just for her own information, what the squashed guy had looked Eke when he was squashed. I told her. 'Did it bother you?' she said. She was eating a Three Musketeers