Have you ever seen a war movie? The typical war movie plays out like this: the handsome gentleman puts on the attractive military uniform and heads to battle. He fights heroically and kills the evil enemy. Then he returns home to his wife and little kids with a smile on his face and medals on his chest. War is usually glorified in the media but in reality, it is horrific, tragic, and not fascinating. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is an anti-war novel about World War II, specifically the bombing of the Dresden.the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, is a traumatized veteran. Vonnegut focuses on the gruesome reality of war and its consequences. Vonnegut reveals his message that war is not something to be proud of and war will always haunt the
