Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter Summary

Chapter 1: After reading the first chapter I can tell that I 'm going to enjoy this book. The book is set up in an interesting fashion. I like how each story is told in a segment. The author’s tone in the first chapter is interesting. He is talking in a calm tone. This juxtaposes the title of the book because I would think that Slaughterhouse Five would entail a book with extreme violence. He 's telling background about his life in an interesting way, he finds ways to tell the reader specific information such as where he lives and what he did as a living. He even goes as far to say where he worked. I wasn 't able to find any symbols in the first chapter of this book. The first chapter was solely to describe to the reader whom the author was. The author seems to have low self-esteem calling his book a failure even though he 's about to tell the story to the reader. I am excited to read the next chapter …show more content…
It 's interesting that they 're being placed in a building called a slaughterhouse. The slaughterhouse was originally meant for pigs as the guard describes but now it is a home for American prisoners of war. This is ironic because we know they will die in the slaughterhouse not because they 're being slaughtered but because the bombs that will soon come will kill them. Another ironic thing is that one of the characters named Derby sent a letter home saying that they were going to Dresden, which was the only safe city in Germany. It was the only city to this point that hadn’t been bombed and that could represent that bombings will happen in the future because the Americans don 't want to leave any cities behind so they 're obviously not going to leave one city untouched, so it could be a potentially bad situation for the prisoners. Chapter 7 could be quite the turning point in this book because in Dresden, more danger could