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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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    Science Fiction: the Vessel for Fatalism Throughout Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Kurt Vonnegut creates an environment shaped by elements of science fiction. These elements‚ notably time travel and alien contact‚ make the novel "a science fiction that deals with the topic of free will versus fatalism‚" (Isaacs 408). Throughout the novel Billy remains "unstuck in time‚" seeing his whole life flash before his eyes in a random order of events (Vonnegut 15). This random order forces the reader to examine the

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    in the novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonegut. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD often comes after a highly traumatic event like war or similar events. Billy Pilgrim was subjected to all sorts of traumatic events. He was captured by

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    ENG 255L-114 29 April 2011 Slaughterhouse Five Final Reflection Since reading Slaughterhouse Five‚ the reoccurring theme has been the idea of war. I believe that this theme has lead to show us how critical and really how destructive war can be. Although in some aspects Billy Pilgrim is able to recover from war‚ I still feel that it disheartened him a lot. I believe the stress and post trauma really seems to take a toll on him. I get this idea based on events and experiences that he had

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    Nick Trish Honors English III pd 5/6 Independent Novel Essay - "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut The science fiction novel‚ "Slaughterhouse-Five" was published in 1969 by a brilliant man named Kurt Vonnegut. This book was known as his masterpiece‚ it depicted the horrific cruelties of war and was inspired by his own experiences in WWII. Vonnegut wrote several other novels‚ short stories‚ and plays‚ and it seemed that in most‚ if not all‚ of these writings that he created his own‚ unique

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    Slaughterhouse Five is a confusing book to read because of the strange occurrences and frequent time traveling. Over the course of the book‚ Billy experiences some very strange things that aren’t common or even real things that a reader would see in their life. First‚ Vonnegut discusses the Trafalmadorians at length. He describes them as "two‚ feet high‚ and green‚ and shaped like plumbers’ friends. Their suctions cups were on the ground‚ and their shafts‚ which were extremely flexible‚ usually

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    offer happiness or is death a more enticing option? After speaking with the ghost that is his father’s spirit; he begins to slowly understand that he does have a purpose. That realization is completely defined by the killing of Claudius. As Hamlet pretends to be insane‚ it helps him see more clearly how people act around him. It also allowed Hamlet to verify Claudius’s love for him as non genuine. Hamlet fakes being ill-minded to enable him to revenge his father’s death. A genius defence would

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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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    of madness is “mental delusion or the eccentric behavior arising from it.” Yet Emily Dickinson wrote: Much Madness is divinest sense to a discerning Eye. Novelists‚ such as Kurt Vonnegut Jr.‚ have often see madness with a “discerning eye.” In Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Vonnegut conveys madness through Billy Pilgrim‚ a traumatized war veteran who believes he has become “unstuck in time”. Pilgrim’s life after the war consists of periods of his life‚ in no chronological order‚ printed together in disarray

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    What effect does the acceptance of tragedy have towards one’s view of life? by Polina Snitkova Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut combines the themes of loss and determinism to create a story of the power of tragedy. The characters and events experience the inevitability of tragedy and begin to accept the fate granted‚ affecting their view of their own lives. Billy Pilgrim is a numb and senseless character after his experiences in WWII; witnessing the bombing of Dresden triggered the concept

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