In the book Slaughterhouse Five, there are many questions that go around, but the main question is who the author of the book? In the book, the author says on a constant basis “That was me. I was there.” I believe the narrator of the book is Kurt Vonnegut. The explanation for this is author mentions his friend Bernard O’Hare at the beginning and the end and rarely in between and when O’Hare’s character would show up when the author would say again “I was there. So was my old war buddy Bernard V. O’Hare.” The first chapter starts off in a first person narrative saying “All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.” (Vonnegut 1) Throughout the story the author is referring to the characters, even at Billy’s point
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The next one I write is going to be fun. ….. It began like this: Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. It ends like this: Poo-tee-weet.” Vonnegut was a writer and author of many books and was in World War II as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. I think that Vonnegut wrote this book as way to tell people about Dresden and the awfulness there, but decided to make the book about a man who thinks he can time travel and is viewing his life in a jumbled order, so people would read the book and not decide against it because people do not like to remember the war or read a book about …show more content…
I was there.” I feel that this is Vonnegut inputting himself in the story reminding the audience that this book is based off real events and that is the book isn’t all for a few laughs. I think Vonnegut really makes himself apparent in the story when Billy Pilgrim walks in the latrine and sees and the American having major diarrhea due to welcome meal and the man near Billy Pilgrim were the author of this book. “An American near Billy wailed that he had excreted everything, but his brains. Moments later he said ‘There they go, there they go.’ He meant his brains. That was I. That was me. That was the author of this book.” (125) Also sometimes the author of Slaughterhouse-Five would mention his friend Bernard O’Hare, but only when he would say “I was
The next one I write is going to be fun. ….. It began like this: Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. It ends like this: Poo-tee-weet.” Vonnegut was a writer and author of many books and was in World War II as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. I think that Vonnegut wrote this book as way to tell people about Dresden and the awfulness there, but decided to make the book about a man who thinks he can time travel and is viewing his life in a jumbled order, so people would read the book and not decide against it because people do not like to remember the war or read a book about …show more content…
I was there.” I feel that this is Vonnegut inputting himself in the story reminding the audience that this book is based off real events and that is the book isn’t all for a few laughs. I think Vonnegut really makes himself apparent in the story when Billy Pilgrim walks in the latrine and sees and the American having major diarrhea due to welcome meal and the man near Billy Pilgrim were the author of this book. “An American near Billy wailed that he had excreted everything, but his brains. Moments later he said ‘There they go, there they go.’ He meant his brains. That was I. That was me. That was the author of this book.” (125) Also sometimes the author of Slaughterhouse-Five would mention his friend Bernard O’Hare, but only when he would say “I was