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    To begin‚ Slaughterhouse 5 was‚ for me‚ a difficult book to understand. The first time I read it‚ I became too enraptured by the time travel and aliens to look intently at what the book was about.The second time through‚ I saw a conglomerate of details I had missed‚ but each one of them just caused me to like the book further. Though Slaughterhouse 5 ended up being a heavier topic book than I had originally thought I still enjoyed many of the components of the book such as the style‚ the important

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    Cited: VONNEGUT‚KURT. Slaughterhouse five. New York‚ New York: Dell Publishing‚ 1969. A Division of Random House Inc.

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    have been as enduring over time as Kurt Vonnegut ’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Slaughterhouse-Five is a personal novel which draws upon Vonnegut ’s experience ’s as a scout in World War Two‚ his capture and becoming a prisoner of war‚ and his witnessing of the fire bombing of Dresden in February of 1945 (the greatest man-caused massacre in history). The novel is about the life and times of a World War Two veteran named Billy Pilgrim. In Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Kurt Vonnegut uses structure and point of view to

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    Slaughterhouse Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim who has become “unstuck in time.” Young Billy is born and raised in Ilium‚ New York‚ he is "tall and weak‚ and shaped like a bottle of Coca-Cola‚" and studying to be an optometrist. He is drafted into the U.S. military and despite his scrawny‚ weak build‚ he is sent to Europe to fight. While fighting in Germany‚ Billy is all of a sudden sent to 1968‚ where the plane he was on has crashed into the mountains of Vermont. He becomes aware that we possesses

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    The Catastrophe of War in Slaughterhouse-Five Russian Prime Minister Joseph Stalin once said‚ "A single death is a tragedy‚ a million deaths is a statistic." The impersonalization of war and death that he shares is an realistic characterization of war; originally intending to improve the lives of people‚ yet inevitably leading to the destruction of human life. Author Kurt Vonnegut endorses this view in his novel Slaughterhouse-Five; he shows that war can never be justified as long as innocent life

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    know that‚ world war II‚ was a hard  disastrous time in history‚but in the story slaughterhouse-five we learn from another perspective of the author who was sent in for the battle of the bulge and witnessed the bombing of Dresden. The author had many experiences from which he had with world war II‚ he shows  what happened and could have been his thoughts throughout the narrator Billy Pilgrim.  First‚ Slaughterhouse five says different themes and how they relate to war. Secondly‚ there’s many events

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    keep the story at a smooth pace. Kurt Vonnegut‚ the author of Slaughterhouse-Five‚ uses time as a way to give the reader an idea of what his main character’s life was like and what he had gone through throughout his life. Vonnegut’s manipulation of time may make the story confusing to some at times‚ but he effectively explains his character’s background through this different use of time. Throughout the plot of Slaughterhouse-Five‚ the idea of time is thrown around in several ways. In the beginning

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    to write Slaughterhouse-Five‚ a fictionalized account of the fire bombing of Dresden and about the destructiveness of war. Slaughterhouse-Five has been widely criticized and condemned‚ and according to June Edwards‚ “The book is an indictment of war‚ criticizes government action‚ is anti-American‚ and is unpatriotic.”(Schmidt‚ 121). These charges and accusations just help support Vonnegut’s idea that different political ideologies help fuel war and its horrors. In Slaughterhouse-Five the main character

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    Spoon is used as a verb‚ a noun and was mention more than several times throughout chapters six through eight. In a war novel when people are slaughtered on a daily basis the frequent usage of spoon seemed a bit out of syntax unless Vonnegut was trying to point out or emphasis through usage of the word spoon. In chapter six‚ the American soldiers was spooning each other for warmth. This passage made the American soldiers seemed vulnerable and humane. It has given them a more feminine twist

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    been inspired to write stories‚ poems‚ or songs about war. Many of these examples tend to reflect feelings against war. Kurt Vonnegut is no different and his experience with war inspired him to write a series of novels starting with Slaughter-House Five. It is a unique novel expressing Vonnegut ’s feelings about war. These strong feeling can be seen in the similarities between characters‚ information about the Tralfamadorians‚ dark humor‚ and the structure of the novel. Kurt Vonnegut is an

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