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    Slaughterhouse-Five Summative Assessment As said before‚ postmodernism is something hard to define and spot. There are several examples of postmodernism and they are: fragmentation‚ paradox‚ metanarratives‚ irony/black humor‚ and many more. Relating to Slaughterhouse-Five‚ I did a soundtrack that showed postmodernism within it. My soundtrack shows fragmentation because time leaps from one song to another and while it’s at that‚ the songs talk about different events My soundtrack includes the songs:

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    Failure to take responsibility for one’s actions is universally seen as a self-inflicted wound with fateful consequences. However in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five‚ the very nature of social responsibility and free will is challenged. The Tralfamadorians‚ an alien race from a distant planet‚ capture protagonist Billy Pilgrim‚ and introduces him to the fourth dimension. As Billy travels through time and learns that events in time are structured to be inevitable and irreversible‚ he accepts his

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    Commentary of How Irony is used in the Book In the book Slaughterhouse 5‚ the author‚ Kurt Vonnegut‚ gives a brief account of his life that spans throughout World War II and his post-war traumatic war experience. The whole book plays throughout time as he travels in his thoughts around the places he has been to‚ implying that there is no present‚ future or past but just time‚ accompanied by a steady and regular pulse-like pace throughout the book. There is also a thin layer of mood spread out

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    Ryan Bown September 4‚ 2009 Biff G Slaughterhouse-Five In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Billy Pilgrim discovers that the Tralfamadorian idea of time is that every moment is sealed by destiny and structured in a way that is unchangeable. Even though the Tralfamadorians and Billy can see their future‚ they know it is impossible to change it. Also‚ since their philosophy of time is fixed by fate and cannot be altered‚ it negates the concept of free will derived from Earth. In the beginning

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    Slaughterhouse Five  The concept of a linear beginning‚ middle‚ and end in the progression of time is thrown  askew in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse­Five through Billy’s travels through time and space.  All people on earth experience a chronological progression of time; they experience birth and  death‚ and are able to perceive the consequences of their actions. Because of Billy’s time travel‚  death does not represent the ultimate end to one’s life. Therefore‚ to Billy death does not retain  the importance that it does to others

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    in war because the change is not physical‚ but mental. Though a person may seem perfectly normal‚ their mental make-up is morphed in a way that changes them forever. As time progresses‚ medical advances increase. Less and less soldiers are being injured and killed on the battlefield‚ however the damage being done to soldiers is not controlled due to PTSD. Until the 1980’s‚ medical professionals did not recognize PTSD as an illness. This being said‚ many veterans traumatized in the Vietnam war did

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    Slaughterhouse-Five 1993. "The true test of comedy is that it shall awaken thoughtful laughter." Choose a novel‚ play‚ or long poem in which a scene or character awakens "thoughtful laughter" in the reader. Write an essay in which you show why this laughter is "thoughtful" and how it contributes to the meaning of the work. English author George Meredith wrote‚ “The true test of comedy is that it shall awaken thoughtful laughter.” Slaughterhouse-Five would have been quite the comedy in Meredith’s

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    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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    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 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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