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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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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The Horror of War Exposed in Slaughterhouse Five When one begins to analyze a military novel it is important to first look at the historical context in which the book was written. On the nights of February 13-14 in 1944 the city of Dresden‚ Germany was subjected to one of the worst air attacks in the history of man. By the end of the bombing 135‚000 to 250‚000 people had been killed by the combined forces of the United States and the United Kingdom. Dresden was
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George Gerges Ms. Worth AP Language and Comp 30 November 2012 The Combat of Death In Slaughterhouse Five‚ Kurt Vonnegut uses irony to demonstrate the destructiveness and depreciations of war. Vonnegut incorporated many cases of irony in his book‚ and they overall enhance the meaning throughout the passage. One of the prime situations of irony took place with Edgar Derby. This poor man had to endure suffering and pain during the course of the war and the firebombing‚ only to be executed in the
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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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Character Analysis Essay Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five‚ by Kurt Vonnegut‚ is a novel that makes no sense in itself; yet‚ when put into context individually with today’s events‚ or life’s events in general‚ makes more sense then if it were clearly spelled out within the pages. By using the character of Billy Pilgram‚ Vonnegut conveys his points with Billy’s reactions and common characteristics. Billy Pilgram could not be any more a human then if he was actually walking
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According to Kurt Vonnegut‚ “...there would always be wars... they were as easy to stop as glaciers” (Vonnegut 3). And from these wars come the stories of those who struggled through them. Night by Elie Wiesel‚ Maus by Art Spiegelman‚ and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut all show how the choices people make when they are in danger are generally selfish‚ attempting to save their own lives and rarely aiding anyone else. People are selfish by nature and will only look out for their own interests
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In the novel Slaughterhouse Five‚ Vonnegut expresses how war is a never-ending cycle of violence and death. Billy Pilgrim is the main character in the book in which the reader experiences‚ with Billy‚ about his past‚ present‚ and future as the story goes. Vonnegut explore the effects of war on the individual in fictionalized accounts of their war experiences in order to move beyond war‚ violence‚ mythology‚ and platitude. Billy suffered the cold‚ gain fame‚ and knew he was going to die soon in his
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