Billy Wilder

The book Slaughterhouse Five and the poem “Requiem”,both by Kurt Vonnegut feature the destructiveness of war as a prevalent theme. Both works address this theme in different ways. It is addressed more literally and explored more in depth in Slaughterhouse Five due to the nature of it being a book and having more length to explore its themes. In “Requiem” the theme is addressed more metaphorically and in ways that are more open to interpretation. In addition to this, the way the theme is…

The project that choose to do was a softball field how I am going to make this project is by having the, Nucleus be in charge of the manger for the softball field and if the manager left then we would have nobody in charge because tectonically we don’t need a manger for that time period of the games because everyone would be doing there own thing at their field so we really don’t need a manager at the field.The Mitochondria will be in control of the lights so that when it gets dark the lights…

Journal Entry #9 September 12, 2014 Topic: My reading since September 2nd Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut – pp.275 (Book finished) Slaughterhouse-Five is an antiwar satire following Billy Pilgrim, a former World War II veteran who has become “unstuck in time.” The novel has a nonlinear narrative, constantly jumping between Billy’s war time, pre-war, and post-war experiences as he lives the events of his life over and over again. The plot mainly focuses around the war and Billy’s…

Olivia Lonchar Ms. Bobby English 9, Period 9 22 May 2018 Americas Piano Man: Billy Joel Many musicians in the world are extremely talented, but Billy Joel is one of a kind. Joel has inspired people for forty years. He has managed to live on his legendary music career for just about 47 years. Joel, born on May 9, 1949, in the Bronx. He displayed an early aptitude on the piano and started taking lessons at the age of four. At the age of sixteen, Joel was already a veteran of three bands. In 1967,…

In “Electric Funeral,” a chapter in I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined), Chuck Klosterman, a best-selling author, analyzes three separate “villains” in today’s society in order to emphasize their impact on others through their actions. In this analysis, Klosterman wrongfully assumes Perez Hilton, a out-of-date blogger, is a “real villain” because of his prejudice against the “first authentically famous blogger.” This incorrect thinking clouds his judgement from…

I think the innocence of both Billy and Amasa is genuine. I also think that for both of them their innocence is bred from ignorance, but for different reasons. Billy is a foundling so most likely, as was the tradition of the time he was raised in a church sponsored orphanage. Due to upbringing he probably was quite naïve when it came to human behaviors. While the text made it clears that Billy was “angelic”, “innocent” and not too bright. I got the impression in a couple lines that Billy’s lack…

Ivanna Guerrero English 2 September 9, 2015 Fate and Free Will in “Slaughterhouse-Five” The novel, “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut, is about a war veteran named Billy Pilgrim who goes through war and at the same time goes back and forward in time to a moment in his life. He went from times he was in war, back to when he was an eye doctor, back to war again, then forward to when he was at home writing to the newspaper, back to war again, and so on. He went through hard times in life and…

Within the first chapter of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five the reader learns not only how the novel will begin but also, rather unconventionally, how it will end. In addition, Vonnegut presents a peculiar admission: “All of this happened, more or less” (1). Beginning in this curious manner sets the stage for a novel that demands the reader’s attention to more than just plot lines. By divulging such information regarding the ending and also disclosing that the content is not to be viewed…

Vietnam War. Although Vonnegut began writing Slaughterhouse Five as soon as he arrived home from World War II, it was the time that he allowed himself to write the novel that helped him compose and reflect his post-war ideas through the main character, Billy Pilgrim. If Vonnegut had not taken as long as he did to compose his feelings and write them into the novel, publishing it for the World War II generation, it…

Through the wild episodes of Slaughterhouse-5, Vonnegut follows Billy Pilgrim, a man whose mind has become “unstuck” due to the horrors of war. The semi-autobiographical novel spirals through Billy’s life, creating a dizzying and broad narrative touching on the countless unnamed people through arbitrarily linked segments. A major aspect of the novel is the trauma Billy experiences throughout the war, conveying Vonnegut’s own suffering and allowing the audience to empathise with both. Vonnegut…