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My favorite aspect of this book was the way all of the themes worked symbiotically to create a very dynamic story. This book forced me to pay attention to the plot, something I can say about very few books. The complexity of Slaughterhouse-Five resided in the inability or unwillingness of Vonnegut to settle on a single theme or mode of discourse It took me until the end of the first chapter to discover what was going on; I even thought I had picked up the author’s edition by mistake.…

The book “Slaughterhouse- Five” written by Kurt Vonnegut published in the year 1969 is a story about the second World War. The author Kurt Vonnegut is an American soldier placed in Dresden, Germany during the bombing of the city. He writes down all his feelings and emotions together with his friend Billy Pilgrim. The novel’s protagonist Billy Pilgrim is stucked in time, so during the whole book the author is jumping back and forth in time. Billy Pilgrim is born 1922 in New York, went to High…

Slaughterhouse-Five is a novel full of motifs, ironies, black humor, as well as themes. The themes seen throughout the novel is sight, destruction of war, and lack of free will. Going more in depth, sight is a theme since the novel talks about being able to see clearly. During the novel, the destruction of war is mentioned quite a few times. Free will is the more obvious theme of the three and seen frequently throughout the entire novel. These three themes are seen in both the poem, A Man…

Kurt Vonnegut a German short story writer and novelist, who endured a very hard and depressing young life, uses his background as motivation for many of his novels and short stories. “Deer in the Works” one of many short stories by Kurt Vonnnegut, was published in 1950. Vonnegut after his service in World War II had a job at G.E or General Electric. This where people theorize where he got inspiration for “Deer in the Works”. The setting in this book is the industrialized plant of Illium works,…

An absurdist novel Slaughter house- Five depicts the atrocities of man through the struggles of Billy Pilgrim whom is attempting to live with the trauma of both his childhood and his experiences within the war. As the embodiment of the common man, Billy is constantly dealing with the abuse and cruelty of man. These abusers are clearly used to depict the general abusive nature of man. Although Billy Pilgrim attempts to lead a normal life after experiencing the atrocities, his bouts of mental…

A Literary Analysis “Slaughterhouse-Five” is an intriguing and mystifying story about everything from war to time travel. Kurt Vonnegut, the author, uses powerful imagery and repetition to create a beautiful and powerful theme that is seamlessly intertwined into his story line. More importantly than his imagery and repetition is his effortless use of symbolism. In the novel, Vonnegut uses many varying symbols that contain many sublevels to help the reader understand the underlying meaning of…

In Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut uses a unique style of writing to change the reader's point of view throughout the text. He uses imagery, select word choice and highlights his theme with motifs to add depth to the book. Birds are present after tragic events to almost lighten the mood and downplay the event. The word choice after these events are positive and do not have negative connotations. Tralfamadorians view the world a lot differently than humans and view time as a constant "range of…

One of the great things of being a human is the ability to make your own decisions. Throughout the novel Slaughterhouse-Five we as the reader are able to take a glimpse of what life would be like without the ability to make any decisions. Billy Pilgrim, the main character, begins life not being able to make any decisions. His father made all of his decisions and never allowed Billy to be himself. This is just the start of Billy’s path. He is then drafted into the Army and has once again been…

Every individual’s life is made up of a collection of moments that all add up to the sum of that person’s identity. These moments can be traced in things such as photo albums, journals, but perhaps most profoundly are memories. In his novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut presents the protagonist Billy Pilgrim in a series of time shifts that range from him being a small youth to an old man. As a result of these frequent shifts in space and time one may be inclined to think that Vonnegut…

Being a prisoner of war during World War II, Kurt Vonnegut over went through many traumatic incidents. Slaughterhouse-Five, written by Vonnegut himself, expresses these encounters through a first person stance by using the character of Billy. Many articles and reviews have been written analyzing the themes and overall success of the novel. Amongst them the perspective of Christopher Lehmann-Haupt and Susanne Vees-Gulani, whom believe the book was absolutely exceptional with the perspective of a…