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    1. Billy Pilgrim’s experience with the Transmalfadorians was easily the most problematic and questionable aspect of the novel. His contact with these beings helped define the novel as science-fiction rather than purely historical fiction. However, Billy Pilgrim was not exactly mentally sound due to his exposure to gore and disaster while in Dresden. The PTSD he suffered led me to question whether Pilgrim was truly a reliable narrator. His experiences with the aliens seemed to be Pilgrim’s…

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    A Review on Freedom From Fear Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, by David M. Kennedy, is a historical work that describes the era of war and depression throughout the nineteenth century. David M. Kennedy is an prize-winning historian who specializes in American History. His work mainly focuses on depression and wartime America, and this book, Freedom From Fear, is what he is mostly known for, which he received Pulitzer Prize for History for writing it. The…

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    The Optics of Life, Death, and War The perspective of a novel is pertinent for understanding its theme and purpose. It is revealed early on in Slaughterhouse-Five that different perspectives contribute to the novel’s meaning. Upon introducing Billy Pilgrim’s character, Vonnegut identifies the protagonist’s profession as an optometrist and also emphasizes his career’s importance to the story, stating that “Ilium is a particularly good city for optometrists” (Vonnegut 24). The phenomenon of…

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    Throughout Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, the reader gets a unique insight on the life and experience of Billy Pilgrim. Billy Pilgrim has gone through unspeakable things. There are three major aspects of Billy Pilgrim’s life that perfectly represent his experience in isolation, and how, or how not it was able to connect him with others. His experiences in the slaughterhouse, on Tralfamadorian, and with his son all answer this very peculiar question. When looking at the question itself, it…

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    “War” the amount of power behind this non important word is immense.This world does not know how brutal war can be; it can completely shatter a person's mental status. In Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut does not only write about the history through his life and the Dresden bombing, but more about the impact it made on Billy, a former soldier who fought in the war. Vonnegut sorts out the rhetorical devices proper such as repetition, hyperboles, metaphors and other rhetorical devices to help give a…

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    Ahjussi (아저씨), also known by it’s English title The Man from Nowhere, is an action packed, thriller film starring Won Bin as the movie’s protagonist, Cha Tae Sik. The movie was released on August 4, 2010 and was directed by Lee Jeong Bum. The story begin with Cha Tae Sik, the owner of a pawnshop, who lives by himself and leads a quiet life. He is a quiet man and does not have any friends except for a little girl, Somi, who lives next door with her mom. Somi frequents the pawn shop, often selling…

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    I will be discussing the transforming effect that the literature I have read has had on me. I will outline the discrimination in Freak the mighty and The Curious incident of the dog in the night time. Also, in Much Ado about Nothing I will outline the immaturity of Claudio as well as the horrific manner in which Claudio treated Hero throughout the film. Furthermore, I will also outline how the aspect that people should never give up is shown in the short story The Fly. Finally I will discuss…

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    Kurt Vonnegut could twist the world like M.C. Esher on acid. His controversial humor and style shattered my twelve year-old world of He-Man and arcade games, only to replace it with dick jokes and a new world of literature that liberated my mind and influenced my own writing. One day in the spring of 1995 I attended a physics demonstration at my middle school that would change how I viewed literature. What does physics have to do with literature? Well, the physics provoked but the…

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    Discussion 5: Captives When I first read the title of this poem I thought that it could be referring to prisoners of war, taken to captivity by their enemy because in war soldiers that are captured alive are imprisoned by their enemies for their own benefit. In order to place this poem in its context I needed to conduct a little research on the author and his contributions to the First World War. I did this to determine whether the author’s knowledge was intimate or perceptive, so that I would…

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    The lesson of "Slaughterhouse-Five" is whatever you need it to be. That is the magnificence of the book. In any case, in his usually dull, wry way, Kurt Vonnegut gives us a few conceivable subjects to investigate. One of the subjects identifies with the route in which Mr. Vonnegut displays the human life expectancy. Through his written work, Mr. Vonnegut offers an old conversation starter: Are we experts of our fate, or would we say we are pawns of destiny? The medium through which Mr. Vonnegut…

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