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What is the Hajj? A: Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. And Mecca being The most holiest city for muslims. Performing Hajj is one of the five pillars of islam, which includes Shahadah( Islamic creed belief that there's only one God), Salat( performing prayers) , Zakat(is form of Helping to the poor), and Sawm(fasting). Why is it important in Islam ? A: its designed to promote a gathering to form a bondage of brotherhood and sisterhood in Islam. And it indicates that…

Although the novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut is an anti-war book, I believe time was more importantly presented within the book rather than warfare. It is easy to feel this way seeing as that the theme dominates every chapter of this “jumbled” book. Vonnegut develops this theme throughout the book by telling events throughout Billy Pilgrim’s life. Let's just say, for a mild mannered, scrawny man, he's able to get around. Events in the novel aren't presented directly, but instead…

The novel Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children 's Crusade written by Kurt Vonnegut is well loved by many people. The novel is about Kurt Vonnegut’s past and future in the perspective of the main character Billy Pilgrim. Through Billy Pilgrim’s experience with the Tralfamadorians and the frequent time travel between past and future. Kurt Vonnegut explores the issues of the inevitability of war, fatalism, and of free will; also the form of his writing, why it took so long to write, his experience…

In in the black comedy novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut recalls and discusses the destruction of Dresden through the narration of the main character Billy Pilgrim, in order to highlight his perspective regarding the horrors of the war. When Dresden gets bombed, Vonnegut— who injects himself in his own novel as Billy— experiences sadness and sympathy rather than anger and resentfulness. Billy’s misery— due to being ambushed and witnessing the gruesomeness of the war— leads him to…

I. SUBJECT Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is a cheerless tale of young Billy Pilgrim’s crusade through World War Two. Billy Pilgrim was an ordinary youth who went on to optometry school and was drafted into the United States Army. However, his life is turned upside down when he is captured by German soldiers during the war and he experiences his first journey through time. Years later, Billy claims to be abducted by the alien creatures from the distant planet of Tralfamadore. They reveal to…

This essay looks into a topic in which authors and directors have tried to paint their own versions of time travel. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a common mental trauma that concerns mainly those who participate in war/war veterans. Slaughterhouse Five goes into the affects of post-traumatic stress disorder (or PTSD for short), the consequences of those affects, and how veterans deal with PTSD differently. The time travel and aliens mentioned in this book are all part of a collection of…

The bombing of Dresden was one of the most fatal and controversial bombings during WWII. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is a science fiction novel that revolves around his experience at Dresden. Vonnegut’s novel is a valuable read that is worthy of implementation into the junior American Literature curriculum. The historical aspect that comes from Vonnegut’s anecdotal novel regarding not only Dresden and World War II, but also the views during the 1960s, when the novel was published, is…

“How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive” (Vonnegut 50). In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut introduces the genuine danger war implements on the innocent minds of soldiers by introducing Billy Pilgrim as a prisoner and Dresden bombing survivor. Kurt Vonnegut’s anti-war novel appropriates around a science fiction theme where Billy Pilgrim becomes “unstuck” in time. Throughout the novel, Billy expresses his ability to time travel throughout different moments of…

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…

In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut details the unconventional experiences of a man in World War II and his role as an unlikely survivor after the war. The poem Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen and John Kerry’s testimony before the Senate also discuss lesser-known experiences of war, describing the dissonance between firsthand experiences and other accounts. These works show how people create a narrative of noble and patriotic conflict to garner support for war efforts, forming…