Censorship In Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse'

Kurt Vonnegut, the author of the novel Slaughterhouse, is exceedingly disconcerted with the fact that his novel has burnt in a school's now well-known furnace in Drake, North Dakota. Vonnegut's purpose of the letter was to indicate how shocked and at the same time disgusted, he and his publishers are about the situation that happened at the school. He uses a very vehement tone to prove how Charles McCarthy, the chairperson of the school board, is completely in the wrong by supporting the idea of burning the novel is okay.

This opens the idea that Vonnegut could have compared his World War II experiences to what was going on at the time around the world. Around the ages of World Wars I and II, the censorship and burning of books was a highly