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    Harrison Bergeron

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    Elena Johnston American Studies Mr. Chau 09/02/13 Harrison Bergeron 1. The simplicity of the world created by Vonnegut may appeal to some‚ but I could never live in such a society where ones thought process is limited to average and the government plays such an overbearing role in the community. People who are born with “above average” intelligence are immediately controlled by handicapper devices to limit their brilliance. Some are given a device that partially alter their sight of

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    Vonnegut wrote "Slaughterhouse 5" in 1969. It is a mixed genre of sci-fi and war. Vonnegut wrote it to show people the ’American dream’ as being false and not having real value‚ only materialistic value. The question is asking whether Slaughterhouse 5 is depressing or optimistic and humorous‚ or maybe it is just sad but the humorous manner makes it feel optimistic. Just by looking at the title ’Slaughterhouse 5’‚ the idea of a place where things got killed is gruesome and depressing‚ but this title

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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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    The story “Harrison Bergeron is a story about how everyone is equal. It is not only human rights‚ it is in every way possible. There are restrictions on abilities from mental to physical. After reading the book‚ there may be a lingering questioning the reader’s mind‚ “Is this society in the story considered a utopia or dystopia?” The answer to this question is that it is both a utopia and a dystopia. There are multiple reasons why this society is a utopia. One reason is that everyone is equal. When

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    Earthlings‚’ said the Tralfamadorian‚ ‘I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by ‘free will.’ I’ve visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will’ ” (Vonnegut‚ 86

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    Irony

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    executed for plundering after stealing a teapot from the rubble in Dresden after the entire city and its inhabitants are destroyed. Billy Pilgrim exercises free will in an effort to preach that there is no such thing as free will. In chapter one‚ Vonnegut mentions that those who are most opposed to the war are those who fought in it. Billy Pilgrim has all the outward signs of a good life but is miserable inside. Billy Pilgrim uses an inconsequential Science Fiction writer as his guide in life.

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    Slaughterhouse 5

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    toll increases to the hundreds‚ each increasing death becomes a mathematical representation rather than another human being with dreams. The reality is This tangent highlights as well as complicates a central theme about war in the novel. Vonnegut uses Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time to discover the true meaning of war. The phrase “so it goes” used repeatedly throughout the novel comes from the Tralfamadorian philosophy that Billy learns in his time travels. The Tralfamadorian view is

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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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    Comparison: Verna and Billy Psychoanalysis emphasizes the defense mechanisms and core issues a character can have. During this unit I noticed that the characters Verna from Stone Mattress by Atwood and Billy from Slaughterhouse-five by Vonnegut are similar in their issues along with the fact that they have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Both characters with a distressing event in their lives that leads to their defense mechanisms and core issues. In the Stone Mattress‚ when Verna was just a young

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    Kurt Cobain Was Murdered

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    Kurt Donald Cobain was found dead in the green house of his mansion on March 1994‚ cause of death "suicide by self inflicted gunshot wound" or at least what was pronounced and believed by many to this day. It is plain and simple he was murdered. Kurt Cobain the singer and guitarist of the 90s band Nirvana which was an alternative rock band from 1988 to 1994. Cobain was born in the town of Aberdeen Washington. Aberdeen is a rural white trash town that borders Seattle the birth place of "Grunge"

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