Slaughterhouse-Five is a novel full of motifs, ironies, black humor, as well as themes. The themes seen throughout the novel is sight, destruction of war, and lack of free will. Going more in depth, sight is a theme since the novel talks about being able to see clearly. During the novel, the destruction of war is mentioned quite a few times. Free will is the more obvious theme of the three and seen frequently throughout the entire novel. These three themes are seen in both the poem, A Man Without a Country and the novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. One of the three themes is being able to see things clearly and is found in the first two lines of the poem, A Man Without a Country. In the poem the author writes, “When the last living thing has died
