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The piece is very tragic, many personifications is used involving children this emphasizing the dread and fear for the refugees, and how soon they will have almost no freedom. The lament "Refugee Blues," was written by W.H. Auden in 1939, in the beginning of World War Two. The word “Refugee” in the title means a person who has to run away from his or her country, due to be treated badly. The word "blues" refers to slow and sad songs that were first sung by African slaves. Each stanza has…

Death, who knew that such a small word could have such a tremendous impact on those around us, on some more than others. Death shows its ugly face in the book Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut wrote about a man named Billy Pilgrim who travels in time, whether he likes it or not. Billy hops through time from when he was in the war to when he was in the zoo on a different planet. With Billy’s time traveling fate, it reveals the true viney fingers that his fear of death really has on…

War Passage Many people who want to hear a story, want to hear the truth, if the truth was told in each story every story would be boring and not worth telling. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien have a similar style of expressing their exaggerated war stories with the contex making things up, they also are similar in a thematic way as Slaughterhouse Five and The Things they Carried both show that one may exaggerate a story to emphasize how important…

On the surface, Slaughter-house Five, by Kurt Vonnegut presents the idea that humans have no free will. Vonnegut uses the lack of free will as a metaphor for the helplessness that people feel faced with situations beyond their control. However, the novel can be reexamined to show the opposite; not only do we have free will, but the choices we make are supremely important. Unexplainable tragedies such as war, disease, and famine appear to be inevitable, engendering an overwhelming sense of…

The Futility of Free Will in Slaughterhouse-Five There are no war heroes in Slaughterhouse-Five. Throughout Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim, the man lost in time, is portrayed as an ignorant soldier wandering about World War II Europe. Other characters such as Paul Lazzaro or Roland Weary are too self-absorbed to understand that they are in war and distract themselves by bullying other soldiers. Even Edgar Derby, who was elected to become the leader for the American…

In the book Slaughterhouse Five, there are many questions that go around, but the main question is who the author of the book? In the book, the author says on a constant basis “That was me. I was there.” I believe the narrator of the book is Kurt Vonnegut. The explanation for this is author mentions his friend Bernard O’Hare at the beginning and the end and rarely in between and when O’Hare’s character would show up when the author would say again “I was there. So was my old war buddy Bernard V.…

Kurt Vonnegut is able to tie together the idea that fate is predetermined with the ideas that life is meaningless, by pointing out that the actions people take in life are inconsequential. Billy Pilgrim sees this in his everyday life, as he travels through time, showing him that all the events in his life are already set, and therefore there is nothing he can do to change what will happen to him. This has its effects on his emotion as he is very distant from his own life, as he sees the events…

In Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut it is contrasted into two major perspectives, Biographical and Structuralist which reveal the devastations of war. Kurt Vonnegut is undoubtedly displaying his life experiences through Billy Pilgrim and his encounters,as he enlisted in the army and exhibits the horrors of war. Kurt channels his experiences through a third person perspective which Billy is essentially a physical manifestation of his memories “The war parts, anyway, are pretty much…

marries Valencia Merble, the daughter of the school’s founder. After another nervous breakdown, Billy admits himself to a veteran’s hospital where he has shock therapy. While staying there, he becomes engrossed in the science fiction novels of Kilgore Trout, whom he is introduced to by another patient. Billy states, “His prose are awful. It’s his philosophy that’s good.” After rejoining society, he is set up in the optometry business by his father-in-law. Billy and Valencia have two children and…

The Reality of a Perfect World in Slaughterhouse Five With countless wars and other conflicts, history seems to tell that a perfect world without violence can’t happen, as Henry Rollins remarked, “I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error.” In his satirical anti-war book Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut focuses on World War II and the bombing of Dresden as he demonstrates the senselessness of war. In the passage from Slaughterhouse Five analyzed in…