elements of the novel all at once using random changes and skipping from one event to another abruptly. The author also gave this particular structure to the plot of the novel because it represented the bombing of Dresden as an event that kept going forever. The fact that the bombing of Dresden didn’t have much historic attention‚ although it was a real massacre‚ encouraged Vonnegut to describe it as Billy Pilgrim sees it:
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Billy Pilgrim has not come unstuck in time; Billy has become a victim of violent warfare. Common to many soldiers of war‚ he has witnessed such horrific events during the bombing of Dresden that he has acquired Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In order to avoid the reality of his cruel life and of the war‚ Billy has become dependant on escapism. Through escapism he has created the planet of Tralfamadore and the Tralfamadorians. Billy Pilgrim has become a victim of PTSD after having served in the
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narrator‚ introduces his experience of the firebombing of Dresden‚ in eastern Germany‚ during World War II while he was a prisoner of war and his attempt for many years to complete a book on the subject. He assures his readers that the book they are about to read is true‚ more or less. Vonnegut and his wartime friend‚ Bernhard V. O’Hare‚ return to Dresden in 1967 with funding from the Guggenheim Foundation. They ride a taxi on the way to the Dresden slaughterhouse that served as their prison. Vonnegut
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theme of free will in order to illustrate the absurdity of war. Vonnegut conveys this through setting‚ characters‚ structure‚ and style. Vonnegut uses setting to convey the terrors of war by juxtaposing the hell-like Dresden with the heavenly Trafalmador. After the firebombing of Dresden‚ when the soldiers emerge out of a slaughterhouse‚ they find the entire city desolate and destroyed. As the soldiers wander out of the slaughterhouse‚ Vonnegut writes‚ "One thing was clear: Absolutely everybody in the
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We all know that‚ world war II‚ was a hard disastrous time in history‚but in the story slaughterhouse-five we learn from another perspective of the author who was sent in for the battle of the bulge and witnessed the bombing of Dresden. The author had many experiences from which he had with world war II‚ he shows what happened and could have been his thoughts throughout the narrator Billy Pilgrim. First‚ Slaughterhouse five says different themes and how they relate to war. Secondly‚ there’s many
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a wonderful example of a novel that deals with the many facets of life after a tragic event. The choice of love over fear is thrust upon the characters through inconsolable grief (Jain). Each of the main characters in the book has lost someone who they care about greatly‚ and they all must find different and unique methods of coping with this fact whether it be writing letters to an unborn son or going on a city wide search for a lock. The irony of the title
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accessing it. When you are an “average” reader you would want a story that goes from begging to end and be very straightforward; not wanting to be confused all the time. Slaughterhouse Five is a brief jumbled up response of Vonnegut’s experience in the Dresden firebombing. Vonnegut specifically wrote it in an out of sequence manner because when he wanted to write it in sequence he was incapable of doing so. He couldn’t write it in order because of his personal struggle to remember the horrific events that
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The Meaning is Near not Here Comparing a novel to a play can be sometimes challenging. When comparing two characters‚ it is harder to see the similarities than the differences. Hamlet and Billy Pilgrim are two different characters‚ from two different centuries‚ from two different countries‚ from two different worlds‚ and yet their search for the meaning of life was astonishingly similar. The search for the meaning of life becomes quite difficult for Hamlet and Billy Pilgrim. They both experience
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introduces the novel by assuring readers that everything in this book is pretty much true‚ especially the parts about the war. He begins his explanation of his experiences beginning with him and his wartime friend‚ Bernard V. O’Hare‚ returning to Dresden in 1967 with funding from the Guggenheim Foundation. While being driven in a taxi to the slaughterhouse where Kurt and Bernard had been locked up as prisoners of war‚ the two men became friends with their taxi driver‚ Gerhard Muller. Gerhard stated
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becomes an optometrist‚ marries‚ and raises two children in Ilium. Germany is another setting in the book‚ particularly the city of Dresden. During the war‚ Billy is sent to Dresden to do hard labor. During his stay‚ the city is bombed and totally destroyed. Billy‚ some other Americans‚ and a few German guards hide in the basement of Slaughterhouse Five during the bombing and manage to escape unharmed. Another setting in the book is the planet of Tralfamadore‚ where Billy is taken by aliens. There he
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