Summary Of Slaughterhouse Five By Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five is a novel written by Kurt Vonnegut. This book could be interpreted in many ways but in tn the most direct explanation, the book is about a man who served in the army during World War II who decides to write about a man who serves in World War II who is also dealing with aliens, time travel, family, and such. The “escape” for the first man mentioned in the novel, is literature. For many years literature has been accepted and praised throughout the world. Since the beginning literature has been used for people, and by people, in numerous ways. Kurt vonnegut, as strange as they may be, has certainly used literature for a purpose in his time.
Slaughterhouse-Five suggests that the function of literature is to help deal with various emotions and allow people to think and express themselves in ways that are not generally perceived; he does
Kurt Vonnegut writes about an average man who is quite similar to Vonnegut himself because he has a daughter and was in Dresden during World War II. Kurt Vonnegut is quite obviously writing about pieces of himself through the narrator. The story of the narrator starts years after the war and he is back home now, handling those experiences about as well as a person can, coming from those circumstances. He wants to write a book on Dresden which is where he served in the military. By writing the book the narrator is able to place those cloudy memories (quote) and help solidify them on paper. Writing the book also helps him connect with former wartime buddies and it is also a better way for him to deal with his feelings then drinking because he has a daughter and she is quite present during the beginning process of he although she had no direct effect to the book, she is still there and not forgotten about. It also more clear that he uses this as an outlet because in the book he actually says that he doesn't expect to gain fame or fortune which assures that it's really just for him (quote). The second instance