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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Novels are written to give a message to the world; this message can be good or bad‚ important or superficial‚ critical or supportive‚ but every story needs an initial purpose. Slaughterhouse-Five‚ written by Kurt Vonnegut‚ was published post World War II and follows the life of Billy Pilgrim who witnesses the fire-bombing of Dresden‚ Germany during that time. On the surface‚ the story seems to be just a jumble of confusion and chaos without any significant insight into life‚ war‚ or human nature
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Vonnegut doesn’t only repeat words‚ scenes‚ images but he also repeats stories such as the assassination of Billy Pilgrim by a gunman hired by Paul Lazzaro or the execution of Earl Derby for taking a teapot from the ruins of Dresden after the bombing. He mentions them repeatedly throughout the narrative until they become leitmotivs‚ recurring phrases- like the expression “So it goes”: I‚ Billy Pilgrim‚ will die‚ have died‚ and always will die on February thirteenth‚ 1976. (141) Addressing the
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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
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Though war is a traumatizing and miserable experience‚ it may also be able to move and inspire people to write a brilliant piece of literature. One example‚ for instance‚ is Kurt Vonnegut who may have been stimulated by the war‚ thus writing Slaughterhouse Five. Though one may categorize this piece as science fiction or even auto - biographical‚ it can also be interpreted as an anti war piece. Because Vonnegut is classified as a post modernist‚ one can take into account all the details
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Truly Tralfamadorian Slaughterhouse-Five is an intriguing book written by Kurt Vonnegut covering WWII and the struggles which the soldiers endured throughout the war. However‚ the book isn’t interesting only for its content; the way the main character experiences and illustrates the book creates room for strange interpretations. This novel is presented in a random‚ skipping timeline which effectively represents one man’s inability to live a normal life after experiencing the traumatic events of
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In many novels‚ the idea of time is handled in different ways to 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
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Slaughterhouse Five‚ by Kurt Vonnegut‚ is a novel in which the laws of physics are broken -- apparently. Billy Pilgrim‚ the main character‚ is loose in time and is free‚ though not in control‚ to experience any moment of his life‚ including the moments before he was born and after he dies (experienced as hues with sustained sounds). At random times in the main sequence of his life he literally jumps to other times‚ something which he is fully aware of. He can be on Tralfamadore one
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Religion in Slaughterhouse Five Ruihan Guo 2013/11/12 Vonnegut’s contempt for religion manifests itself in Slaughterhouse Five. It is illustrated in the first quotation about the role of religion in Billy Pilgrim’s life and the second quotation absurdly likening the origin of Christianity to “a gift” (139) from an outer space visitor. In the first quotation‚ Billy Pilgrim shows how he uses religion as a blind support in his life and an absolute denial of free will that absolves him from responsibility
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Question 1 Christopher Balderas I think telling a story out of sequence makes the story more effective in conveying its message after you have read the whole story. In the beginning of an out of sequence story you might have a lot of questions on why things are occurring‚ and why the author would tell you‚ for example‚ the end of the story at the beginning of the book. The disorganization
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