Cats Cradle And Slaughterhouse Five Comparison

Kurt Vonnegut finds a way to show us how certain things effect us as human beings. Throughout Cats Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five we come to see his attempt to send us the message about our societies upbringings. Putting a magnifying glass on specific issues such as religion, science and war and how they took a tool on society as a whole. Without analyzing both books one can come to conclude several differences but when trying to get the bigger pictures you can see how they are actual quite alike, both in forms sending out signs about our society and how certain things are taking over. Vonnegut attempts to get his readers to see his important themes of religion, war and death in many ways.

We encounter Billy Pilgram in the beginning of Slaugterhouse
He just isn't so in on what really is going on around him. He seems to get unstuck in time. Going back and forth from certain events that all happened to him at some point and time in his life now. He even gets abducted at one point by aliens that are known to be Tralfamadorians, they go on to show him many things such as their meaning of time and how you cant go back and change the past of even the future. he actually didn't really get abducted, it was just something he imagined that happen to him inside his head. He was on the edge of losing his mind. He gets “abducted” by them right after he was just becoming sane, or we thought he was. He had just married a women named Valenvia and proceeded to make a family with her. People think that he is crazy now when he comes back when he tries to tell everyone about what had happen to him while being adducted and how these so called “ aliens “ think. The thought of free will is an enormous and prevailing picture in this novel. We come to see that certain things are already planned and just cant be changed now, the Tralfamadorians make us see that free will i silly and not true at all. You come to see how you just need to learn to accept