Battle of the Bulge

makes it very clear that man 's misdeeds are human, and it is of that nature to act accordingly. However Roland Weary is as close as they come. Roland Weary is the man Billy finds himself with behind enemy lines at The Battle of the Bulge in Luxembourg. He is equipped for battle having every piece of equipment he had ever been issued.”(p.39) He talks a great deal to Billy about his fathers torture device collection, and likes to fantasize about how great of a soldier he is. The reality is he is…

he is not a fully trained soldier, but a chaplin 's assistant. The novel time travels, bouncing back and forth between Billy during the war and pos war affects. Despite his lack of war ethics, Billy is deployed to Luxembourg to fight in the Battle of the Bulge against the Germans. Throughout the novel Vonnegut speaks about the war against Germany and the toll Billy payed for serving. Also, in the story Billy describes how he was abducted by aliens. It also explains the reality of what soldiers…

objected strongly to certain lines of questioning, which he thought the lawyers had all agreed not to pursue until a later date. Following Jan Profanity laced tirades in the deposition room, Jerome Facher filed a motion to have Judge Skinner censure Jan. Judge Skinner strongly rebuked Jan for his unseemly behavior in the depositions, but did not censure him. Following the conference with the judge, Facher attempted to begin negotiations with Jan. Jan refused to identify a number at which he…

The bombing of Dresden, Germany occurred during the Second World War between the 13th and 15th of February, 1949. The attack was done by Britain and the United States through the use of an aerial bombing. Within the four raids that the allies carried out, 3,900 tons of highly explosive bombs and incendiaries were dropped on the city by heavy bombers of the United States Army Air Forces and the British Royal Air Force. Dresden, Germany was the country’s seventh-largest city and the largest of the…

more foolish thoughts of patriotic bravery. How can they have such thoughts they ask since their former innocence no longer exists and now these words have no meaning if they ever did. The psychological condition of the men preparing for the next battle is made the more real when visiting their wounded comrade. Honor and glory have no meaning in this total madness. Paul’s character is revealed when he went back home, he reminisces: “I imagined would be different from this. Indeed it was a…

J.D. Salinger: A Broken Man, A Beautiful Artist "I'd just be the Catcher in the Rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be" (Salinger 173). These words reflect me and my life almost to the dime. Probably because I wrote 'em and all. Actually, a lot of the things I wrote could be about me. A war not only broke me, but became the vessel that spawned my artistic ability. The combined exposure to traumatic events, plus problematic situations from youth, caused…

Vonnegut as a Composite of His Experiences, Times, and Philosophies The efforts to simplify motivation into a form following as so a concrete description in writing is a task of both arduous effort and dubious reward. This is due to the fact that such an abstract thing as motivation is a conglomeration of factors rooted in the psyche and the experiences therein. Hence, when attempting to determine with relative certainty the reasons behind a writer 's motivations, it is necessary to gather all…

On the eleventh of October 1939 the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt received a letter from the one and only Albert Einstein, which Albert Einstein had actually wrote on August 2 1939. The letter mentioned of a new field of physics that was showing that the element uranium could undergo nuclear fission, with the resultant release of a remarkable deal of energy. Ever since the Greek man named Democritus stated in the year of 450 B.C. that everything in existence is made of atoms, ever…

An Exploration of Postmodern Aesthetics in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse – Five V. Balamurugan Dr. D. Shanmugam PhD Research Scholar Associate Professor Department of English English Wing, DDE, Annamalai University Annamalai University Abstract The aim of this research paper is to expose the postmodern aesthetics in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Postmodernism first gained its popularity in America and it become rich and varied in the hands of the American writers and…

J.D. Salinger was commissioned to the U.S. Army during 1942 through 1944. He started off as being a Counterintelligence Agent and later on he was a part of the Battle of Bulge and combated on D-Day. Throughout the war, Salinger had seen many traumatic events. Thus, he was receiving treatment in the hospital due to a nervous breakdown in Nuremberg, Germany. Holden Caulfield might have not been in war but he was having…