Ben Friedman
Mr. Mahoney
AP English Literature and Composition
October 9, 2015
A Non Linear Journey Through Space and Time: Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut’s semi autobiographical satirical war novel Slaughterhouse-Five journies through the life of the protagonist Billy Pilgrim. Following his abduction by alien, he becomes unstuck in time; his life is no longer linear, but sees the past, present and future all happening at once. Discovering this. Pilgrim realizes he can never die, because even if he is dead in the future, he is still alive in the past and present. The novel moves between times in Pilgrim’s life, but the focal point of this novel revolves around his experiences surrounding the Bombing of Dresden during the Second Great war.
Mr. Mahoney
AP English Literature and Composition
October 9, 2015
A Non Linear Journey Through Space and Time: Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut’s semi autobiographical satirical war novel Slaughterhouse-Five journies through the life of the protagonist Billy Pilgrim. Following his abduction by alien, he becomes unstuck in time; his life is no longer linear, but sees the past, present and future all happening at once. Discovering this. Pilgrim realizes he can never die, because even if he is dead in the future, he is still alive in the past and present. The novel moves between times in Pilgrim’s life, but the focal point of this novel revolves around his experiences surrounding the Bombing of Dresden during the Second Great war.