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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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    as enduring over time as Kurt Vonnegut ’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Slaughterhouse-Five is a personal novel which draws upon Vonnegut ’s experience ’s as a scout in World War Two‚ his capture and becoming a prisoner of war‚ and his witnessing of the fire bombing of Dresden in February of 1945 (the greatest man-caused massacre in history). The novel is about the life and times of a World War Two veteran named Billy Pilgrim. In Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Kurt Vonnegut uses structure and point of view to portray

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    What effect does the acceptance of tragedy have towards one’s view of life? by Polina Snitkova Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut combines the themes of loss and determinism to create a story of the power of tragedy. The characters and events experience the inevitability of tragedy and begin to accept the fate granted‚ affecting their view of their own lives. Billy Pilgrim is a numb and senseless character after his experiences in WWII; witnessing the bombing of Dresden triggered the concept

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    initial purpose. Slaughterhouse-Five‚ written by Kurt Vonnegut‚ was published post World War II and follows the life of Billy Pilgrim who witnesses the fire-bombing of Dresden‚ Germany during that time. On the surface‚ the story seems to be just a jumble of confusion and chaos without any significant insight into life‚ war‚ or human nature. However‚ it is by means of the perspectives and details of the novel that Vonnegut brings about his point. Through Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Vonnegut portrays both mankind’s

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    The Catastrophe of War in Slaughterhouse-Five Russian Prime Minister Joseph Stalin once said‚ "A single death is a tragedy‚ a million deaths is a statistic." The impersonalization of war and death that he shares is an realistic characterization of war; originally intending to improve the lives of people‚ yet inevitably leading to the destruction of human life. Author Kurt Vonnegut endorses this view in his novel Slaughterhouse-Five; he shows that war can never be justified as long as innocent life

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