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    Billy The Kid

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    Billy the Kid is an historical figure from the Old West whose story has eluded historians and has created controversy among biographers. One thing is sure; he has truly lived. However, most of his story told is part of a myth. The author Michael Ondaatje, in his novel The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, has improvised a story about this historical figure, with as the only starting point, his imagination. In The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, the author Michael Ondaatje uses the medium of…

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    Ben Friedman Mr. Mahoney AP English Literature and Composition October 9, 2015 A Non Linear Journey Through Space and Time: Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut’s semi autobiographical satirical war novel Slaughterhouse-Five journies through the life of the protagonist Billy Pilgrim. Following his abduction by alien, he becomes unstuck in time; his life is no longer linear, but sees the past, present and future all happening at once. Discovering this. Pilgrim realizes he can never die, because…

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    Moreover, Slaughterhouse Five focuses on the pointlessness of war. Vonnegut truly wanted to avoid writing a novel that glamorized war. Thus, he portrays the war being fought by “…young, uncomprehending innocents” (“Popular Fiction in America”, Beacham Publishing). Slaughterhouse-Five defines man's cruelty to man, and the mass destruction of Dresden by serves as a prime example. While Vonnegut is a humanist at heart, he often exemplifies the human capacity for destruction. Moreover, the novel…

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    Slaughterhouse Five is a novel written by Kurt Vonnegut about a World War II veteran unstuck in time. Billy Pilgrim is dislodged in time, experiencing events of his life like a playlist of memories set on shuffle. Most of the book is centered on Billy’s time in the war, his time on the alien world of Tralfamadore, and his life in between. While reading Slaughterhouse Five, the reader meets a version of Billy who has experienced different moments of his life many times over. While the story is…

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    Kurt Vonnegut, the author of the novel Slaughterhouse, is exceedingly disconcerted with the fact that his novel has burnt in a school's now well-known furnace in Drake, North Dakota. Vonnegut's purpose of the letter was to indicate how shocked and at the same time disgusted, he and his publishers are about the situation that happened at the school. He uses a very vehement tone to prove how Charles McCarthy, the chairperson of the school board, is completely in the wrong by supporting the idea of…

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    Immortal Memories in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five Death. “[W]hen a person dies [,] he only appears to die” (Vonnegut 33-34). Death does not mean a moment is lost forever. In Slaughterhouse-five, Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a character that experiences war and travels through time . Vonnegut conveys the impermanence of death by using imagery, a motif and creating a nonlinear plot. In this novel, Vonnegut uses a great amount of visual imagery to display the true…

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    Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, is about the life of protagonist Billy Pilgrim, and his experiences in World War II and his adventures as a result of being “unstuck in time.” Billy being exposed to the idea of no free will through time travel and an alien species, discovers that “among the things [he] could not change were the past, the present, and the future” (Vonnegut, pg 60). In Slaughterhouse-Five, a lack of belief in free will causes Billy Pilgrim’s passive listlessness and the…

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    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…

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    Uh-huh. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! goes the geyser of the Yellowstone Park as it shoots up again.Have you ever been to Yellowstone Park well you should they have amazing features in this wonderful park. They have wonderful creatures and amazing things to see when you go on the trail or a hike. You would enjoy Yellowstone Park but maybe there are some things you might not like about the park. Have you ever wonder what happens under the ground at the Yellowstone park well, I have a secret to tell you.…

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    Yellowtone Supervolcano

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    people have heard of Yellowstone National Park but not everyone knows how strange yet spectacular the caldera actually is. Yellowstone is a supervolcano and the park sits on top of a massive crater called a caldera. According to a NOVA documentary, the caldera is large enough to hold the city of LA and the magma chamber encompasses half of the park above it and extends almost 5 miles deep (Adah, 2016). This makes Yellowstone’s magma chamber the largest known on Earth. Since Yellowstone is a…

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