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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Kurt Vonnegut places his own life experiences In Slaughterhouse Five and Cat’s Cradle‚ in order to make the novels‚ which are frequently deemed ludicrous‚ more realistic and to answer problematic queries that have risen up in his past. In Slaughterhouse Five‚ Vonnegut‘s experience in World War II‚ a prisoner of war forced to witness the Allied forces’ firebombing of Dresden‚ is the essence of the novel‚ while Vonnegut’s great distaste for war and his mother’s suicide are greatly personified in Cat’s
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There are a lot of things that happened in the book Slaughterhouse Five and in Billy’s lifetime that Billy and the author explain in this book but the author explains the story in a very difficult way. It is hard to follow what happens in the book because of how Billy acts and thinks. He changes location constantly because of his flashbacks from war. In the first chapter it is hard to pick up what is happening because the narrator is speaking and is talking about Billy but when you reach the second
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Slaughterhouse-five is about a man named Billy Pilgrim. Pilgrim was born in 1922 and grew up in New York. He does reasonably well in school. While attending college to become an optometrist he is drafted in to the army. He trains to be a Chaplain Assistant. He is taken Prisoner in the battle of Bulge in Belgium. Right before his capture Pilgrim experiences his first flashback were he sees his entire life flashes before him. The Germans put him into a boxcar to Germany. Once he arrives he experiences
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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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Murder” by Josh Pachter‚ there were numerous examples of situational irony—situations that involve an unexpected twist. The first example of situational irony was the title. People generally would not send out invitations for witnessing a murder. Usually‚ people would want to have no witnesses if they were committing murder. This is symbolic and represents how the rest of the story is interlaced with situation irony. Another example of situational irony is Eleanor Madeline Abbott inviting twelve well-known
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In Slaughterhouse Five‚ Kurt Vonnegut explains his experience of the World War II bombing of Dresden‚ Germany. Vonnegut’s creative antiwar novel shows the audience the hardships of the life of a soldier through his writing technique. Slaughterhouse Five is written circularly‚ and time travel is ironically the only consistency throughout the book. Vonnegut outlines the life of Billy Pilgrim‚ whose life and experiences are uncannily similar to those of Vonnegut. In Chapter 1‚ Kurt Vonnegut non-fictionally
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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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In the anti-war novels‚ Slaughterhouse - five by Kurt Vonnegut and Catch 22 by Joseph Heller there are many motifs and symbols that at first do not appear to be related but if we scratch under the surface‚ we are able to find striking similarities. Both novels are dealing with the man’s experience through World War II with one being a soldier and the other one being a fighter pilot. They are both known as the anti-war heroes as they disagree with the idea of war and do not possess both the will and
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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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