The book “Slaughterhouse- Five” written by Kurt Vonnegut published in the year 1969 is a story about the second World War. The author Kurt Vonnegut is an American soldier placed in Dresden, Germany during the bombing of the city. He writes down all his feelings and emotions together with his friend Billy Pilgrim.
The novel’s protagonist Billy Pilgrim is stucked in time, so during the whole book the author is jumping back and forth in time. Billy Pilgrim is born 1922 in New York, went to High School, enrolled in the Ilium School of Optometry and went to war in Belgium. Right after his arriving he got arrested by German soldiers. The whole group got sent to Dresden, where they had to work and lived in a camp that occupies a former slaughterhouse. One night the city got bombed, 13,000 people died, but Billy and …show more content…
The language is not that easy and you have to think a lot to understand the story. The theme of the book is war and how war can change lives.
The critics are mostly positive about the book. It is Kurt Vonnegut first really popular book and many people recognized how good the language is. The characters of the book are really easy to understand, but the switching between the time periods is really hard. The book is written in the past, but many parts are written in the present tense. The setting is during the author’s childhood in the 1920’s, during the war 1944-45 and in the late 1970’s.
Kurt Vonnegut is born 1922 in Indianapolis, IN. He went to High School, started University and got called to serve in war in Europe. After being in war, he married his High School girlfriend and they got three children. He worked for several companies and in the end he worked as an employee for public relationships for General Electric. Kurt Vonnegut started writing novels and with “Slaughterhouse-Five” he got his first popular book. He died 2007, from falling on his head in his
The novel’s protagonist Billy Pilgrim is stucked in time, so during the whole book the author is jumping back and forth in time. Billy Pilgrim is born 1922 in New York, went to High School, enrolled in the Ilium School of Optometry and went to war in Belgium. Right after his arriving he got arrested by German soldiers. The whole group got sent to Dresden, where they had to work and lived in a camp that occupies a former slaughterhouse. One night the city got bombed, 13,000 people died, but Billy and …show more content…
The language is not that easy and you have to think a lot to understand the story. The theme of the book is war and how war can change lives.
The critics are mostly positive about the book. It is Kurt Vonnegut first really popular book and many people recognized how good the language is. The characters of the book are really easy to understand, but the switching between the time periods is really hard. The book is written in the past, but many parts are written in the present tense. The setting is during the author’s childhood in the 1920’s, during the war 1944-45 and in the late 1970’s.
Kurt Vonnegut is born 1922 in Indianapolis, IN. He went to High School, started University and got called to serve in war in Europe. After being in war, he married his High School girlfriend and they got three children. He worked for several companies and in the end he worked as an employee for public relationships for General Electric. Kurt Vonnegut started writing novels and with “Slaughterhouse-Five” he got his first popular book. He died 2007, from falling on his head in his