11/28/12 Zinn‚ Howard. The Bomb. Pollen: City Light Books‚ 2010. Call No. 940.54’2521954 The Bomb gives a unique insight on the bombing of Hiroshima and Royan from the perspective of an air force bombardier World War II veteran Howard Zinn. This two-part book includes Zinn’s essay over the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Zinn’s experiences of the bombing over the town of Royan. Although this book may be a quick read‚ it is an influential and inspiring book. With the introduction being completed
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World History Period. 2 March 25‚ 2012 Historical Analysis Slaughterhouse Five is a novel based off of the fire-bombing of Dresden. This story depicts the horrors of World War Two and the mental turmoil that it caused some of the soldiers that fought in it. Slaughterhouse Five teaches us how anyone can be changed by war not matter what your circumstances before it. War is an atrocity that is commonly glorified in today’s world for no good reason. It not only kills millions but wounds everyone
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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 Cradle. Both of Vonnegut’s novels reflect historical and experiential elements of his own life. In Slaughterhouse-Five
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a somewhat professional persona‚ caring about the environment‚ human rights‚ and more. Along with his own life experiences‚ this aspect of Vonnegut’s character contributed to his writing and style. From his mother’s suicide to the firebombing of Dresden‚ Vonnegut encounters influential moments throughout his entire life. When writing about his experiences fighting for the United States during World War II‚ Vonnegut describes the total and absolute
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meaning to his novel. Vonnegut’s life had a tremendous impact on the plot of Slaughterhouse-Five. The first few sentence in the book are “ All this happened‚ more or less. The war parts‚ anyway‚ are pretty much true‚ One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn’t his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. I’ve changed all the names” (Vonnegut 1). Theses first sentences inform the reader right away
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Rhetorical Devices As Edwin Starr’s famous anti-war song goes‚ “War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!” and if Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five had a theme song‚ this would be the perfect song. Slaughterhouse Five is one of the greatest anti-war books of all time- it even says so on the back cover. In order to convey his anti-war attitude to the readers‚ Vonnegut uses many different rhetorical devices in Slaughterhouse Five‚ including analogy‚ irony‚ and satire. The first important
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Vonnegut (just like Billy’s character)‚ was taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge‚ sent to the city of Dresden‚ stayed in “Slaughterhouse- Five”‚ worked in a factory that produced nourishing syrup‚ survived the bombing of Dresden by burrowing in the meat locker‚ burned the bodies of thousands killed‚ and watched a friend shot dead for taking a teapot from the rummage of what was left of Dresden. This is the point in Slaughterhouse-Five that readers see the story is not just Billy Pilgrim’s experiences
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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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circumstances when the moral emergency was high. One example of this is the bombing of Dresden because of the threat of Nazism’s victory would be a moral catastrophe and the British seemed in danger of losing the war. It would end the war sooner than it would otherwise end and‚ despite the large number of civilian casualties they inflicted‚ at a lower cost in human life. The British bomber command was justified in destroying Dresden when the moral emergency represented by losing the war is sufficiently
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that Vonnegut makes in the opening chapter. He relates a conversation he had about Slaughterhouse-Five: Over the years‚ people I ’ve met have often asked me what I ’m working on‚ and I ’ve usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. I said that to Harrison Starr‚ the movie-maker‚ one time‚ and he raised his eyebrows and inquired‚ "Is it an anti-war book?" "Yes‚" I said‚ "I guess." "You know what I say to people when I hear they ’re writing anti-war books?" "No. What do you
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