Billy the Kid

tense when speaking from the personal point of view as Kurt Vonnegut. The tone of the narration is ironic and familiar to the reader. The narrator uncovers some dark humor in the novel as well as emotional material. He also prefaces a passage with “Billy says” to make a distinction between Billy’s view of events and the reality of the whole thing. The majority of the book is written in the past tense and the narration is omniscient. This means that the narrator has an all-knowing perspective of…

Slaughter House Five, Billy Pilgrim became “lost in time” and cannot control where he travels and whether he is in the past, present, or future. Billy saw anything from his own birth, various experiences from his life, and his death. This is because of the harsh things Billy had to go through as a young soldier, which would later affect how he lived life. These events traumatically changed Billy, for better or for worse, and his character. Kurt Vonnegut develops the character of Billy Pilgrim…

question of moral and political justice in his story, Billy Budd. Billy Budd is an innocent, handsome, and popular young sailor whom almost everyone loves. In recent history, “the Great Mutiny” occurred before Billy is impressed upon the ship Bellipotent. The only person who despises Billy on the ship is the master-at-arms named John Claggart. In a confrontation with Claggart, Billy stands up for himself by punching Claggart. The punch that Billy threw immediately kills Claggart. On the ship,…

The opening scene of Rear Window (1954), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, acts as a prologue of the film: we are introduced to the space where much of the narrative will take place, to the protagonist, his background, and his neighbors through entirely visual means. Hitchcock created an entire film from the rear window of a Greenwich Village apartment symbolizing a certain “movie-watching” experience. Hitchcock uses mise en scène to show how the film is going to progress, uses camera movement…

-1- The Transformation I had a dream about turning into an animal the night before it all happened. The day before, my friend (Charley) and I had an encounter with The Wizard of Thepville. We destroyed him in a game of cards him and totally rubbed it in. He told us some sort of riddle like," You shall become thy goat and thy chicken, for then at first light you shall be transformed". Being the cool guy I am, I just said," pshhhh, whatever". And here I am the next morning with…

Ostensibly, if this book is autobiographical, it cannot also be science-fiction. However, for these two genres to coexist, Vonnegut manipulated and introduced themes. By introducing the theme of sight alongside Billy Pilgrim, I was initially led to believe that Vonnegut was a mad man and Billy was a soothsayer. As Pilgrim’s characterization progressed, I saw that Pilgrim suffered from PTSD and likely molded his surrounding so he could understand them and…

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…

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…

This essay will provide an overview of a clip from the beginning of the movie Double Indemnity. The clip has a runtime of two minutes and thirty-three seconds and contains five shots in total. This paper will provide an in-depth analysis of each shot in the clip. It will examine the types of camera angles used, the lighting direction and the composition of objects and figures on the screen. The elevator encounter between Walter Neff and the Watchman in the first scene is a two-shot captured at…

An absurdist novel Slaughter house- Five depicts the atrocities of man through the struggles of Billy Pilgrim whom is attempting to live with the trauma of both his childhood and his experiences within the war. As the embodiment of the common man, Billy is constantly dealing with the abuse and cruelty of man. These abusers are clearly used to depict the general abusive nature of man. Although Billy Pilgrim attempts to lead a normal life after experiencing the atrocities, his bouts of mental…