Slaughterhouse Five Theme Essay

Slaughterhouse Five Final Project
One important theme in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse Five is is war For instance, Vonnegut writes “Do you know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books? I say, "Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?" From this quotation the reader can conclude that
What he is saying is that there is no point in writing anti war books because war is something that you just can't stop. We will always have some sort of war so he relates it to glaciers since naturally glaciers form. Vonnegut looks like he is struggling with the same problem, he writes Slaughterhouse Five as an anti-war book though in the first chapter he says a quote about how it's useless to write them

This theme shows up repeatedly in the text for example, vonnegut writes “I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee” Here vonnegut reveals his belief that he really does not like war that he is telling his own son not to
For instance, Vonnegut writes “Little Billy was terrified, because his father had said Billy was going to learn to swim by the method of sink-or-swim. His father was going to throw Billy into the deep end, and Billy was going to damn well swim.” From this quotation readers can conclude that billy didn't have a choice in learning to swim his dad is who if forcing billy to pretty much just jump out there and almost drown because if he didn't his dad would just throw him out