Slaughterhouse Five Literary Analysis
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 accept it too through Pilgrim. Vonnegut breaks the rules of storytelling to share the bombing of Dresden while also helping himself learn to accept what he survived. A way in which Vonnegut annihilates the rules of storytelling in Slaughterhouse-Five,