weakened if the novel followed a traditional format. Slaughterhouse-Five is an anti-war novel that details the life of Billy Pilgrim who experiences great horror and suffering of his involvement in World War II and as a prisoner of war during the bombing of Dresden. Billy’s story‚ however‚ is not told chronologically; it has no pattern or order. The disorganization of Billy’s stories and experiences represents the immense war trauma he suffers from. The
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Ricky Grayson English Chadwick and Kelly 6/31/10 Journal Entry 1: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close pgs 1-75 Summary: In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close‚ Jonathan Safran Foer writes of a nine year old boy‚ Oskar Schell‚ who is both inquisitive and humorous. You see‚ Oskar lost his father in the 9/11 terror attacks and cannot adjust to his new life. Oskar is both surprised and hurt that his mother‚ who he thinks should be grieving over his father’s death‚ is‚ in fact
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curing the threat? And how could a war that would inevitably kill many civilians as well as destroying so much in an already desperately poor country‚ be justified for either reason? Even the capital punishment of those directly responsible for the bombings would not be allowable in most democratic countries‚ by way of punishment. The implication that the war was undertaken to guard US citizens against the
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Political hero On 30th November 1874 Winston Churchill was born. He was born into a wealthy family with his father‚ Lord Randolph Churchill‚ being a tory politician. Churchill attended the royal military collage where he embarked on an army career. However he perused politics and became a conservative member of parliament‚ which didn’t last long as he later changed to be part of the liberal democrats. Winston Churchill did a lot of changing between serving in the army and being in politics‚ for
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Nazi Germany – Unit 2 Women * 3k’s – Kinder Kirche Kuche = Children Church Cooking * 1933 – encouragement marriage * 1934 – encouragement children * Traditional role – home‚ no prof. job‚ no fashion * Mother hood cross – 4 children * Lebensporn – Accommodation specifically for women to have children * Responsible for church – Nazis against religion though Church * 1933 – Catholic concordat * Protestants – Some support Nazis – Some Opposed * Pastor
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Slaughterhouse-Five‚ a massively successful novel written by Kurt Vonnegut in 1949 is a book that reveals the bombing took place in Dresden‚ Germany that has been significantly overlooked. The book explores a series of topics ranging from the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder‚ absurdity of wars‚ and how the society perceived things. More specifically‚ the book focuses on the society’s attitude towards women. Vonnegut portrays women as overbearing‚ simple-minded‚ and highly superficial objects
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For my book report I read the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. This book was published by Haughton Mifflin in 2005. The novel takes place mostly in New York City‚ shortly after terrorists destroy the Twin Towers in 2001. However‚ the time switches from the narrator’s present to the late 1940s when his grandparents are newlyweds and even farther back to when they are teenagers in Germany. In the present time‚ Oskar lives in an apartment building. Across the street
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addiction. In my opinion one of the best known writers of this literary genre was Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut had his own experiences connected with the war. In 1943 he was sent to Europe to fight on the war. A year later he was captured and taken to Dresden‚ where during the day he worked in a factory whereas nights the spent in old slaughterhouse. In February 1945 he was the witness of bombarding and this events were the main inspiration to write one of his best works ‘Slaughterhouse-five‚ or The Children’s
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The Humor of Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five has a dark sense of humor that accentuates Vonnegut’s nihilistic view of the human condition. The humor in Slaughterhouse-Five is uniquely dark‚ twisted‚ and overly ironic. So it goes. Throughout the novel‚ Vonnegut would go out of his way to humorously show that the human condition has hit rock bottom. For example‚ take the character Howard W Campbell‚ Jr.‚ an American who betrayed his country for Nazi Germany. In the story‚ Campbell visits
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AP European History Ch 28 World War II 1. What were Hitler’s plans for Germany and then for Europe? How successful was he in implementing those plans? Pages: 902-910 2. Why did Italy invade Ethiopia? How did this incident further show the weakness of the League of Nations? How did France and Britain appease Italy while enforcing sanctions at the same time? Page:___________ 3. Why is the Rhineland seen as a major blunder for Britain and France? Why did they not intervene? What defense did France
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