Kurt Vonnegut Literary Analysis

Kurt Vonnegut is the author of this novel, he was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on 1922. He emerged as a writer and novelist in the 1960s, and wrote the classics Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and many more. After he studied at Cornell University, Kurt Vonnegut enlisted in the U.S. Army. They sent him to what is now Carnegie Mellon University to study engineering. A year later, he served in Europe and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. After this battle, Vonnegut was captured and became a prisoner of war. He was in Dresden, Germany, during the Allied firebombing of the city and saw the complete devastation caused by it. Vonnegut escaped harm only because he, along with other POWs, was working in an underground meat locker making vitamin