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    Living in a world of war and tragedy can cause a disconnect‚ in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel‚ Slaughterhouse 5‚ he tells the story of a POW survivor during the attack on Dresden. In the book‚ it shows that‚ self reliance is important when you live in alienation and loneliness‚ whether it be from loss of empathy‚ loss of loved ones‚ or just being detached from reality. Billy Pilgrim is a character in the novel that is stuck in a world of death and misery and Billy is in the middle of it where he is connected

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    Research Paper on Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five” by Stephanie Gill Outline I. Introduction and Name a) “Slaughterhouse-Five‚ or The Children’s Crusade (1969)” b) Most famous work about the bombing of Dresden c) “Vonnegut’s telegraphic‚ schizophrenic” style II. Background a) Vonnegut joined the Army b) Vonnegut’s capture c) Vonnegut’s experiences in Dresden III. Plot Summary a) Idea of

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    Daniel Mallory Accelerated English Steve Bachelor 12 October 2014 Twists & Tralfalmadorians: Symbolism in Slaughterhouse Five Not everyone is a time-traveling‚ dimension-defying war veteran. However‚ Billy Pilgrim‚ the main character in the novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut‚ is one such human. Blessed with a special gift of being able to walk through time and space unexpectedly by an alien race called Tralfalmadorians (from a planet by the name of Tralfalmador)‚ Billy Pilgrim encounters

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    Topic 2: Slaughterhouse Five In Slaughterhouse Five‚ Vonnegut shows a lot of hopelessness in showing continuous death and war. He breaks the notion that there are “good guys” and “bad guys” in war by showing that all humans have a capacity for evil. In addition‚ he gives us the notion that people are capable of doing incredibly evil deeds. We can see this in Lazarro when he tells a story to Billy about a time when a dog bites him. Lazarro acting in revenge sticks razor blades into a steak and

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    SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE OR THE CHILDRENS CRUSADE Billy Pilgrim | Page 1 Billy is the main character which emphasis of the whole book is placed. The novel is about four sides of Billy’s life: First his past life as a soldier in World War II; Next his present‚ uneventful life as a husband‚ father‚ and optometrist in Ilium‚ New York; Then his time travels that

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    Slaughterhouse-Five is a novel written in troubled times about troubled times. It is one of the most compelling anti-war novels in American history. Kurt Vonnegut‚ the writer of this novel‚ uses his own experiences to tell a story about World War II. He was a prisoner of war during the firebombing of Dresden. Dresden is a city in Germany that was firebombed unexpectedly in 1945 as a warning to the Russians. Between 35‚000 and 135‚000 people were killed in the bombing. Vonnegut believes war is bad

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    In Slaughterhouse Five‚ Vonnegut uses satire in the topics of war‚ aliens‚ fate and the reasons for life itself. In Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut‚ the author uses many literary devices to bring across his point including black humor‚ irony‚ wit and sarcasm. He mainly uses satire throughout the book. Satire is a literary device found in works of literature that uses irony and humor to mock social convention‚ another work of art‚ or anything its author thinks ridiculous to make a point. Vonnegut

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    In slaughterhouse five‚ there is a character named little Paul Lazzaro that Billy Pilgrim mentions quite often in the book. In the chapters‚ Lazzaro always talks about revenge and he says “revenge is sweet” and that nobody ever got it from Lazzaro who didn’t have it coming. Revenge in a violent sense is never justifiable no matter what anybody has done to hurt the other person. Lazzaro in the book tells a story about what happened to a dog that bit him. The story goes as Lazzaro was walking and the

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    Science Fiction: the Vessel for Fatalism Throughout Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Kurt Vonnegut creates an environment shaped by elements of science fiction. These elements‚ notably time travel and alien contact‚ make the novel "a science fiction that deals with the topic of free will versus fatalism‚" (Isaacs 408). Throughout the novel Billy remains "unstuck in time‚" seeing his whole life flash before his eyes in a random order of events (Vonnegut 15). This random order forces the reader to examine the

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    Is Slaugherhouse Five a Lie? Billy Pilgrim demonstrates all of the indicators of PTSD after struggling to deal with the pain and suffering that he went through. This story is actually about a man who went through traumatic experiences and is using aliens as a way to explain them.This lines up very well with the assessment of Billy Pilgrim’s mental health from his daughter. It is safe to say that Billy Pilgrim is at least suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Billy Pilgrim is the main character

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