Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

In the novels, Slaughterhouse 5 written by Kurt Vonnegut and What is the what by Dave Eggers, the authors use techniques to help contribute to the development of the readers’ curiosity on how the story might end. As a result, it leaves them a feeling of wanting more of the storyline until the very last page. The novel Slaughterhouse 5 is written by the author, Kurt Vonnegut who experienced and survived the World War II. He expresses his personal feelings regarding the war through the main character, Billy Pilgrim and, simple language, allowing readers to easily understand and experience moments of the past, present, and future with him. Identically, In the novel What is the what by Dave Eggers, the author narrates the challenging life story
In addition, Vonnegut’s decision to write the novel in fiction in contrast to an autobiography creates the development of reader’s curiosity through the use of inner dialogue that produces emotional experiences. As Slaughterhouse 5 opens the plot, Billy Pilgrim states that everything he narrates in the fiction novel really “happened, more or less” (Vonnegut 1). The given information pertaining that “[t]he war parts, anyway, are pretty much true”, questions an interesting fact as to why the novel is written in fiction instead of an autobiography of the author himself (Vonnegut 1). The author’s choice to share his story through a character like Billy Pilgrim creates suspense for readers to follow through Billy’s change of character and his ability to escape the present and connect it to a moment in his future or past. Therefore, producing the start of what may be an emotional experience between readers and the author. Additionally, it creates a relationship between them due to the exposure that the novel is based on a real-life story. Because of this revelation, it grasps the attention of the readers and drags them along through the end of Billy Pilgrims journey as he drifts away from the present and travels back in time or to the future. The use of simple language enough even for children to understand that Billy Pilgrim is trying to get across
Thus, seeking sympathy from readers that the novel is on based on Sudanese refugees’ complex living during the 1980’s. This reveals a link between readers and author to form a bond and experience the refugee lifestyle. Furthermore, the novel emphasizes the effect of major events in Valentino’s life on him, using a narrative voice to silently speak to people around him and sharing his story. However, he begins to use second-person point of view at the very end of the novel and directly addresses the readers that “[he] will tell stories to people who will listen and to people who don’t want to listen” to his life story, because he knows that “[we] are [here]. How can [he] pretend that [we] do not exists?” … as “it would be almost as impossible as [we] are pretending that he does not exist “(Eggers 535). For this reason, it creates a stronger one on one connection and inspiration for readers who alongside him went through the journey of getting robbed and mistreated. Addressing the novel as an autobiography for a Sudanese refugee rather than a fiction based on a real-life story and the sudden revelation to continue sharing Valentino’s story creates an emotional roller coaster and friendship between readers and the author to continue on until the end of the