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    a senior in Upper Darby High school and recently heard that the school administration has decided to ban “Slaughterhouse-five” which is a great book in my opinion. It is a book about WWII soldier’s journey and how the prisoner of wars passed their days until end. It was even ranked 18th greatest English novel of the 20th century by Modern Library (“Banned Books Awareness: Slaughterhouse-five”). The author of the book Kurt Vonnegut was an American soldier in WWII and had faced the fire bomb of Dresden

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    Throughout Slaughterhouse-Five‚ author Kurt Vonnegut provides an unusual story experience. His novel creatively tells the story of Billy Pilgrim‚ revolving around the firebombing of Dresden during World War Two‚ a horrific topic‚ but does it a way that is unconventional and quite humorous. Kurt Vonnegut bends the conventional rules of storytelling by providing twists to the standard tools of literature. Kurt Vonnegut provides an unconventional and inconspicuous narration of the story of Billy Pilgrim

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    Slaughterhouse Five is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut who expresses his thoughts on antiwar‚ social issues‚ and life through the character Billy Pilgrim and others. Vonnegut uses many examples of social commentary to show the audience the depth of society from an opposing standpoint. In the novel Slaughterhouse five‚ Vonnegut uses free will to contradict the thought of humans being able to change the future or for it to be predestined. Free will is the power of acting without the constraint of necessity

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    George Gerges Ms. Worth AP Language and Comp 30 November 2012 The Combat of Death In Slaughterhouse Five‚ Kurt Vonnegut uses irony to demonstrate the destructiveness and depreciations of war. Vonnegut incorporated many cases of irony in his book‚ and they overall enhance the meaning throughout the passage. One of the prime situations of irony took place with Edgar Derby. This poor man had to endure suffering and pain during the course of the war and the firebombing‚ only to be executed in the

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    Kurt Vonnegut finds a way to show us how certain things effect us as human beings. Throughout Cats Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five we come to see his attempt to send us the message about our societies upbringings. Putting a magnifying glass on specific issues such as religion‚ science and war and how they took a tool on society as a whole. Without analyzing both books one can come to conclude several differences but when trying to get the bigger pictures you can see how they are actual quite alike

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    Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut can be described as a novel that is interesting‚ creative‚ and well-written. Kurt Vonnegut writes this novel with a satiric voice but also expresses many other emotions as well. The first chapter is very unique because of the way Vonnegut tells the story of how he came about writing this novel and introduces his wartime friend Bernhard O’Hare. Although it seems like it might not belong at all‚ this chapter gives an introduction that might be needed for a character

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    Character Analysis Essay Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five‚ by Kurt Vonnegut‚ is a novel that makes no sense in itself; yet‚ when put into context individually with today’s events‚ or life’s events in general‚ makes more sense then if it were clearly spelled out within the pages. By using the character of Billy Pilgram‚ Vonnegut conveys his points with Billy’s reactions and common characteristics. Billy Pilgram could not be any more a human then if he was actually walking

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    Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut Critics of Kurt Vonnegut’s are unable to agree on what the main theme of his novel Slaughterhouse Five may be. Although Vonnegut’s novels are satirical‚ ironical‚ and extremely wise‚ they have almost no plot structure‚ so it is hard to find a constant theme. From the many people that the main character Billy Pilgrim meets‚ and the places that he takes us‚ readers are able to discern that Vonnegut is trying to send the message that there will always be death‚ there

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    “‘Schlachthof-fünf’ Schlachthof meant slaughterhouse. Fünf was good old five”(Vonnegut 153). In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five‚ the main character throughout the book is “unstuck in time”. The author tells readers the character’s life out order‚ basically readers go wherever the character goes in time. To write this book as an interesting and unique kind of war book without glamorizing the war‚ based on his experiences Vonnegut chose to write about the effects of war on soldiers but mostly himself

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    Five Mother Sauces Béchamel‚ the classic white sauce‚ was named after its inventor‚ Louis XIV’s steward Louis de Béchamel. The king of all sauces‚ it is often referred to as a cream sauce because of its appearance and is probably used most frequently in all types of dishes. Made by stirring milk into a butter-flour roux‚ the thickness of the sauce depends on the proportion of flour and butter to milk. The proportions for a thin sauce would be 1 tablespoon each of butter and flour per 1 cup of milk;

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