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    War is a tragedy that nobody wishes to participate in‚ yet it is an ever present occurrence throughout the duration of time. Slaughterhouse Five‚ written by Kurt Vonnegut‚ is an antiwar novel but ironically doesn’t fixate on war itself. Traditionally‚ antiwar novels focus on the tragic deaths that occur‚ but this novel follows a survivor of the war‚ Billy Pilgrim. As a young adult‚ Billy is forcibly drafted into a war that he has no ambition to fight. With Billy’s lack of military skills he is quickly

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    To what ends do the illusion of free will‚ the mention of war and the key motif of “so it goes” contribute to the novel? Throughout the novel Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut we focus on three motifs/themes to define whether or not it is an anti-war novel. Through the anti-war illusion of free will theme and the “so it goes” motif we are able to make clear assumptions. The illusion of free will‚ “so it goes” and the presence of the narrator and gruesome images of war throughout the play defy

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    Is Slaugherhouse Five a Lie? Billy Pilgrim demonstrates all of the indicators of PTSD after struggling to deal with the pain and suffering that he went through. This story is actually about a man who went through traumatic experiences and is using aliens as a way to explain them.This lines up very well with the assessment of Billy Pilgrim’s mental health from his daughter. It is safe to say that Billy Pilgrim is at least suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Billy Pilgrim is the main character

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    One definition of madness is “mental delusion or the eccentric behavior arising from it.” Yet Emily Dickinson wrote: Much Madness is divinest sense to a discerning Eye. Novelists‚ such as Kurt Vonnegut Jr.‚ have often see madness with a “discerning eye.” In Slaughterhouse-FiveVonnegut conveys madness through Billy Pilgrim‚ a traumatized war veteran who believes he has become “unstuck in time”. Pilgrim’s life after the war consists of periods of his life‚ in no chronological order‚ printed together

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    In “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut a man named Edward K. Wehling Jr. and his wife are about to have triplets but he has to sacrifice his grandfather just for one of his children to be able to live because of population control laws in a perfect world. A painter who does not have avery good life in his opinion is painting a portrait of Leora Duncan when Dr. Hitz‚ who is a very important time came in. He heard about the triplets and eventually has a fight with Wehling because Wehling does not want anyone

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    style in all of their writings. Kurt Vonnegut has developed a very unique style using irony and symbolism along with multiple other rhetorical devices to introduce all of his‚ somewhat related‚ themes throughout his novels. The novels Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five are exceptional examples of the consistency in Kurt Vonnegut’s writing. He leaves a mark on all of the texts he uses by using his unique style of black humor to get his point across. Slaughterhouse Five is a novel written in third

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    In "Harrison Bergeron" Kurt Vonnegut depicts a society in which everyone is mentally‚ physically‚ and socially equal. Throughout the history of our country‚ Americans have sought racial‚ gender‚ and socio-economic equality. On paper such a society seems ideal. Through the story one might infer that Vonnegut views the concept of total equality as ludicrous. Equality can be interpreted many ways. One point of view is the American belief that everybody should be treated equally and another view is the

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    Vonnegut‚ the narrator‚ introduces his experience of the firebombing of Dresden‚ in eastern Germany‚ during World War II while he was a prisoner of war and his attempt for many years to complete a book on the subject. He assures his readers that the book they are about to read is true‚ more or less. Vonnegut and his wartime friend‚ Bernhard V. O’Hare‚ return to Dresden in 1967 with funding from the Guggenheim Foundation. They ride a taxi on the way to the Dresden slaughterhouse that served as their

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    Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut is a futuristic short story set in 2081 where new constitutional amendments made everyone equal. Attractive people are forced to wear ugly masks‚ the strong have to wear weights around their necks and the intelligent people have to listen to an annoying noise from their ears which stop them from thinking. George and Hazel are married‚ but George is very smart so has to dealt with the deafening noise whenever he thinks too much. They have a son together who got arrested

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    Religion in Slaughterhouse Five Ruihan Guo 2013/11/12 Vonnegut’s contempt for religion manifests itself in Slaughterhouse Five. It is illustrated in the first quotation about the role of religion in Billy Pilgrim’s life and the second quotation absurdly likening the origin of Christianity to “a gift” (139) from an outer space visitor. In the first quotation‚ Billy Pilgrim shows how he uses religion as a blind support in his life and an absolute denial of free will that absolves him from responsibility

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