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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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    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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    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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    The story told in Slaughterhouse Five is very much unique to its setting and the time in which it occurs. The story is told by Kurt Vonnegut‚ who is also a minor character in the book‚ about the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim during World War II. The story centers on a specific event that occurs during the war‚ the Allied firebombing of Dresden‚ Germany. This specific bombing has gone virtually unnoticed by Americans throughout history since the war due to its location‚ being in Germany. However

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    been inspired to write stories‚ poems‚ or songs about war. Many of these examples tend to reflect feelings against war. Kurt Vonnegut is no different and his experience with war inspired him to write a series of novels starting with Slaughter-House Five. It is a unique novel expressing Vonnegut ’s feelings about war. These strong feeling can be seen in the similarities between characters‚ information about the Tralfamadorians‚ dark humor‚ and the structure of the novel. Kurt Vonnegut is an

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    In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five‚ Kurt Vonnegut writes about World War ||. While writing about the reality of war‚ Vonnegut also writes about Billy Pilgrim’s life both before and after the war‚ and from his travels to the planet Tralfamadore. Billy is able to move both forwards and backwards through his lifetime in an unpredictable cycle of events. Since Slaughterhouse-Five’s central topic is the horror of the Dresden bombing‚ Billy comes across many questions about the meanings of life and death

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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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    Plungers Inside a fantasy world of time travel‚ aliens‚ and porn stars‚ Kurt Vonnegut delivers an iron hard moral statement on the aftermath of war in his novel‚ Slaughterhouse-Five. We follow the fictional character‚ Billy Pilgrim‚ as he struggles‚ like Vonnegut did‚ to discover the purpose of life. Kurt Vonnegut uses Slaughterhouse-Five as a way to cope with his experience in the Dresden massacre. By taking the narrator’s voice‚ and by employing the themes of time and fate‚ Kurt Vonnegut seeks to

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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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    In the novels‚ Slaughterhouse 5 written by Kurt Vonnegut and What is the what by Dave Eggers‚ the authors use techniques to help contribute to the development of the readers’ curiosity on how the story might end. As a result‚ it leaves them a feeling of wanting more of the storyline until the very last page. The novel Slaughterhouse 5 is written by the author‚ Kurt Vonnegut who experienced and survived the World War II. He expresses his personal feelings regarding the war through the main character

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