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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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    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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    “We had been foolish virgins in the war‚ right at the end of childhood.” The novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut depicts different periods of main character Billy Pilgrim’s life. Throughout the novel the reader follows Billy through his time as a soldier in WWII‚ life after‚ and the period where Billy thinks he lived on the planet Tralfamadore. These periods show the destructiveness of war on a person and its long-term effects after. Vonnegut actually fought in WWII and while at his war buddy’s

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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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    Kurt Vonnegut breaks the conventional rules of storytelling in his novel‚ Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut does so because he was not able to write a standard novel on the bombing of Dresden‚ which he tried to do many times. Additionally‚ Vonnegut wants his novel to be an anti-war novel‚ he wants it to explain the bombing of Dresden and the atrocious things both sides did. His purpose for writing this novel was to have Billy Pilgrim‚ the main character‚ accept the bombing because Vonnegut learns to

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    Slaughterhouse-Five explores fate‚ free will‚ and the illogical nature of human beings. Protagonist Billy Pilgrim is unstuck in time‚ randomly experiencing the events of his life‚ with no idea of what part he will next visit. Billy Pilgrim says there is no free will‚ an assertion confirmed by a Tralfamadorian‚ who says‚ "I’ve visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will." The story’s central concept is that most of humanity is insignificant--they

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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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    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. However‚ it is by means of the perspectives and details of the novel that Vonnegut brings about his point. Through Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Vonnegut portrays both

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    Death is apart of life‚ it happens to everything and everyone. In the book Slaughterhouse-Five‚ the main character‚ Billy experiences WWII as a prisoner of war. He experiences all the different horrors of war that include the bombing of Dresden and the death of thousands of people. Throughout the book‚ Billy travels in time to different parts of his life‚ including his birth and death. Death is something that happens to everything that lives. Death happens everywhere. Every living thing dies in

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