Dresden

Situations are also described unsympathetically, with passages of joy mixed closely with those of immense suffering. One man “had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm”. This mirrors the manner in which periods of horror were mixed in with happier ones in Billy’s experiences of the war. It also reflects the inability Billy has to distinguish between the two, as they intermingled so closely for him.…

For example, the eighth quartet was written in Dresden, Germany, where an attack was made during World War II in 1960. While on vacation and during the course of his career, he wrote letters to his secretary, Isaak Glikman. After his vacation, one letter wrote, “if some day I die, nobody is likely to…

than 34,000 people die from suicide each year. More than 34,000 people have attempted suicide each year. We can only imagine what this does to family and friends of a suicide attempter and especially a death caused by suicide. Suicide is like the dresden after a bombing. Suicide in the United States Suicide cost the United States $44 Billion dollars annually. On average, there are 117 suicides every day. For every suicide, 25 people attempt. Firearms account for 50% of all suicides.…

World War two The topic i chose was world war two which occurred from 1939 to 1945. The second world War was the most widespread and deadliest war in history. It involved more than 30 countries and resulted in more that 50 million military civilian deaths.The war was started by Germany in an unwarranted attack on Poland. Britain and France declared war on Germany after Hitler had refused to stop his invasion of poland. Among the estimated 50 million people killed there was six million Jews…

“A life is something to be suffered or endured, not something one makes.” This convenient truth helps Billy Pilgrim come to terms with the passive nature of his existence. According to Billy because the Tralfamadorians have access to the 4th dimension. This means that they do the best with the allotted time they have been given by looking at moments the only want to look at. "There isn 't anything we can do about them, so we simply don 't look at them. We ignore them. We spend eternity looking…

Science Fiction is defined as fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes. Many of these types of novels portray a dystopian future society as seen in George Orwell’s 1984. Other works portray monsters like in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Or they deal with time travel, and aliens like the novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. In any case, there are a multitude of stories that can be categorized in this one genre. With each…

In Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim follows a non-chronological journey while being “Unstuck in time”. As Billy is captured and held as a prisoner in a POW camp and then taken to Dresden during its bombing, he experiences many atrocities. Once the bombing was over, Billy and the other soldiers are put to work, digging up the diseased bodies of those who did not survive. After the war, Billy has trouble returning to his normal life, as he spends some time in a mental…

Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana to Kurt Sr. and Edith Vonnegut. His father was an architect and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy brewer. Kurt Jr. was the youngest of their three children. The Depression brought many changes to the Vonnegut household. Kurt Sr. had to sell the house and Kurt Jr. was taken out of private school. In his teen years, Vonnegut wrote for the student paper, The Echo, and he continued his interest in journalism at Cornell,…

I learned later on that this was not the case; that Billy Pilgrim had been based off of a man that Kurt Vonnegut was a prisoner of war with in World War II. This book was a commentary by Kurt Vonnegut on the effects of war and, specifically, the Dresden bombing. Billy Pilgrim survives this bombing, and he describes the destruction of the city he sees with the phrase “poo-tee-weet.” There are no words that could help one to comprehend the devastation that is caused by…

The war occurred when he was just 16, and at the young age of 20, he was drafted into the war. Shortly after, he was sent to Germany, and then captured as a POW. Afterwards, he was transported to Dresden, and the infamous firebombing at Dresden occurred. Over 130,000 innocent civilians were killed by American Troops that day, after they had dropped explosives over the city whom’s fire could not be easily extinguished. Fortunately for Vonnegut, he had survived after hiding…