All of Kurt Vonnegut's books are strongly satirical and ironical (Vonnegut often uses very dark humor), funny, compassionate and extremely wise. ... I read and summarized three of his works: Cat's Cradle, Harrison Bergeron, and Slaughterhouse five. ... When you examine Cat's Cradle, Harrison Bergeron, and Slaughterhouse five you are given a good idea of Vonnegut a writer, because it provides a cross section of his ideas and the themes he is attempting to portray. ... The theme of Slaughterhouse-Five, and perhaps the most obvious, is the war and its contrast with love, beaut...

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 11, 1922. He was the son of successful architect Kurt Vonnegut and Edith Lieber. ... On February 13, 1945 the air raid sirens went off in Dresden, Vonnegut and some other POWs found refuge in an underground slaughterhouse, the basis of Slaughterhouse-Five. ... Vonnegut went to publish many other novels, short stories, two plays and several works of non-fiction, however, no work had enhanced his reputation more than Slaughterhouse-Five, a vehemently antiwar novel that appeared during the peak of protest aga...

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Author Kurt Vonnegut is often perceived as one of the greatest post-apocalyptic authors of the 20th century. ... While a POW, Vonnegut witnessed the firebombing, which was; along with the nickname the guards gave their camp, the basis for "Slaughterhouse-Five." ... Kurt Vonnegut submitted what would become "Cat's Cradle" as his master's thesis to the University of Chicago, who accepted it and he was awarded his Masters in anthropology. ... The next well-known book Vonnegut wrote is "Slaughterhouse-Five," which follows the main character, Billy Pilgrim, as he suffers through flashba...

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In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five he presents the Tralfamadorians as an influence on Billy for the belief of the idea that fate and free will doesn't exist but the existence of the Tralfamadorians is questionable, so is the idea of predestined life. ... Humor in Humans and World War II In the novel Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut uses black humor to reveal the darker side of humans and World War II. ... On the topic of death another black humor added by Kurt Vonnegut is this. ... Kurt Vonnegut includes this black humor to show the insensitivity of humans. ... Kurt Vonnegu...

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In the science fiction novels Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut uses an antiwar theme that war is like cancer to society and our planet, in order to prove that war is not justifiable under any consequence. In Slaughterhouse-Five, the main character is a veteran who has flashbacks to when he was in World War II. ... He criticizes the US's decision to bomb a civilian city in Slaughterhouse-Five and he criticizes the way America conducts itself. ... In Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut says that war machines will be the end o...

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Reading Reaction to Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five sounded like a little above average book in the beginning. ... The spastic changes of the time of where the story takes place is confusing but amusing, however, I am grateful that Kurt Vonnegut still left a main story line which he kept on returning to throughout the book. ... I also enjoyed Kurt Vonnegut's attitude before the beginning of the story. "This one [war book] is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt" (p. 28 Vonnegut). ... I would recommend this book to any...

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Slaughterhouse Five gives us three views of moving forward: the Tralfamadorian's, Kurt Vonnegut's and poor Billy's view who is stuck in the middle. ... First, let us take a look at Kurt Vonnegut, the author of Slaughterhouse Five. ... In Slaughterhouse Five, Billy gets his phrase, "so it goes" from the Tralfamadorians. ... "So it goes" is very important in Slaughterhouse Five. ... Through Slaughterhouse Five he is able to teach us the true meaning of "so it goes....

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"Slaughterhouse Five" Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a novel involving the character Billy Pilgrim. ... In fact, "Slaughterhouse Five" was not published until 23 years after the end of the war; 23 years of desolation and internal angst for Vonnegut. ... To understand "Slaughterhouse Five," one must first understand the author himself, Kurt Vonnegut. ... Vonnegut was not among the dead, and escaped death since he was in an underground slaughterhouse with other prisoners of war making vitamin supplements. ... Throughout Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five", Vonnegut displays the destructiveness of w...

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Kurt Vonnegut, religion and social laws. When reading Slaughterhouse-Five it is extremely noticeable that Kurt Vonnegut attempts to open your mind beyond the limits that society established once as untouchables. ... The sarcasm and careless for things that Billy Pilgrim shows in Slaughterhouse-Five reflects Vonnegut's careless for everything since human is innocent. ... (Vonnegut p.53). ... Despite Vonnegut's pessimism, he defends one's independency, he defends human capacity of doing things by their own. ...

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In Slaughterhouse Five, author Kurt Vonnegut brings this issue to light. ... Minor characters in Slaughterhouse Five also demonstrate being psychologically effected by the rigors of war as well. ... While reading the bulk of this very absorbing novel, it can be easy to forget that the author, Kurt Vonnegut, was himself a witness to the firebombing of Dresden in 1944. ... Slaughterhouse Five is really two books in one. The first, titled Slaughterhouse Five is about Vonnegut's struggle to write a book about Dresden. ...

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"Slaughterhouse 5," by Kurt Vonnegut is literary masterpiece that reflects the horrors of war and death using science fiction and satirical approach. ... Kurt Vonnegut has his protagonist experience the horrors of war. ... He saw the beautiful city of Dresden before the attack, and the destruction after, "What he did not see from the inside of Slaughterhouse-Five was a full day and night of high-explosive demolition of streets, buildings, monuments, houses, and living human organisms, followed by the towering cyclone of flame, the all-consuming, all-destroying pillar of oxidation; nor did...

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Slaughterhouse-five, written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., is written in a non-linear style. ... The Tralfamadorian books are written in just the style that Slaughterhouse-five uses. ... Slaughterhouse-Five is a random collection of interesting stories and they don't really tie together except for the fact that they are all about Billy Pilgrim. ... That is the reason that every time death is mentioned in the novel, Vonnegut writes, "So it goes" (Vonnegut). ... Slaughterhouse-Five's style may be confusing at times, but it works very well with the overall themes that Vonnegut is trying t...

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As readers of Kurt Vonnegut's literary masterpiece, "Slaughterhouse Five," we're told that the all the events of the story are true, more or less, and that Vonnegut experienced the Dresden bombings firsthand. The jumbled narrative structure is Vonnegut's way of telling his story of Dresden. The setting of Slaughterhouse-Five is wide-ranged, each place having a significant effect on Vonnegut's story through the life of Billy Pilgrim. ... Vonnegut having experienced war and imprisoned in Dresden himself. ... I believe this is what Vonnegut wanted the readers to get from this...

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Many writers in history have written science fiction novels and had great success with them, but only a few have been as enduring over time as Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. ... In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut uses structure and point of view to portray the theme that time is relative. The way Kurt Vonnegut structures Slaughterhouse-Five aids in the portrayal of the theme that time is relative. ... The point of view that Slaughterhouse-Five is written from also affects the way the reader fells about time after reading the novel. ... (Dunstan 1) Slaughterhouse-Five gives ...

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Slaughterhouse Five is the story of a small, timid man named Billy Pilgrim. ... The author, Kurt Vonnegut, wrote this book in a non-sequential manner. ... The different forms of imagery in Slaughterhouse Five are one of Vonnegut's primary tools for bringing this nonlinear story together. ... At one point when the Americans are in Slaughterhouse Five, a fellow American-turned-Nazi named Howard Campbell is lecturing and trying to sway them into Nazism. ... Without Vonnegut's use of imagery, dark humour, and irony, Slaughterhouse Five would not be nearly as effective of an antiwar...

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Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut appears to be a simplistic story of a man's experiences in World War II. ... The phrase "so it goes" is very important and is seen through Billy Pilgrim, Kurt Vonnegut, and the overall theme of the book is based on it. ... Vonnegut was in World War II and put a lot of himself into the character of Billy Pilgrim. ... This may vary well be Vonneguts own "so it goes". ... The book Slaughterhouse Five is certainly excellently written work. ...

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr., is sometimes criticized, but acclaimed more often than not. ... Slaughter House Five, Vonnegut's most well known and read novel, was adapted into a film starring Michael Sacks. ... (The Vonnegut Web) Nonetheless, there is much more to Kurt Vonnegut than statistics and numbers. ... A biography on just Kurt Vonnegut's life, and not his novels, is a book in itself. ... This experience later led to create the story-line of Slaughterhouse Five. ...

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Author Kurt Vonnegut was very fortunate to have the bulk of his writing years occur during a time in history in which he wrote Slaughter House Five. ... The Neverending Campaign to Ban 'Slaughterhouse Five'. ... All parent member reviews for Slaughterhouse-Five. ... Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five. ...

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Author Kurt Vonnegut was very fortunate to have the bulk of his writing years occur during a time in history in which he wrote Slaughter House Five. ... The Neverending Campaign to Ban 'Slaughterhouse Five'. ... All parent member reviews for Slaughterhouse-Five. ... Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five. ...

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In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut's prophetic vision of time and travel reveals his philosophical view toward free will. Throughout Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut argues that the loss of free will is affected by a parallel of controllable and uncontrollable events that occur in the life of the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim. ... Through war, Vonnegut shows how free will is lost in several ways. ... As a child, Vonnegut argues that most rights and free will are taken away. ... Kurt Vonnegut gives a compelling account of the disadvantages of the continual choices life presents whil...

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Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five; His uncontrollable time traveling takes Billy back to his experiences in World War II and on the planet which is called Traflamadore. ... Tralfamadorian novels have a similar description to Slaughterhouse-5 itself. ... Also, Vonnegut is wrong about the climax of his own book. ... When it comes to rule breaking, Vonnegut does it all. ... On the train ride to Dresden Vonnegut writes, "Oz. ...

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Vonnegut's Illustration of Destructiveness of War Slaughterhouse-Five was written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in 1953. ... In Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut develops the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim along with utilizing science fiction and satire to demonstrate the destructiveness of war. ... In Slaughterhouse-Five, "Vonnegut comes at last in direct confrontation with his Dresden experience" (Keogh and Kislatis 172). ... This aphorism offers somewhat of a constant underlying tone, that we must all accept death, but "something approaching pessimistic fatalism in Slaughterhouse-Five" (Reed 18...

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut I.Character List Billy Pilgrim - The main character of the novel. ... Vonnegut - In the first and last chapters, Vonnegut explains why he wrote this novel. ... Gernard Muller - The friendly cab driver who brought Bernard and Billy to the slaughterhouse in which they were held prisoner in. ... Conflict In Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim is both the protagonist and antagonist because of his internal struggle. ... Plot Summary Addressed as an anti-war novel about the bombings of Dresden in World War II, Slaughterhouse-Five is a fictional story ...

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The novel Slaughterhouse Five is written by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Billy, some other Americans, and a few German guards hide in the basement of Slaughterhouse Five during the bombing and manage to escape unharmed. ... A minor character is Vonnegut, the auther himself, who appears in the novel. In the first and last chapters, Vonnegut tells about himself, the story, and how he wrote it. Vonnegut actually appears as a character in some of the war scenes. ...

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In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut portrays how events shape a person's mindset by exploring the past, imaginary, and current world of the life of Billy Pilgrim. ... He was pitiful"" (Vonnegut 53). ... They were all being killed with their families " (Vonnegut 226). ... "Billy blinked in 1958, traveled in time to 1961 " (Vonnegut 58). ... In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut portrays how events shape a person's mindset by exploring the past, imaginary, and current world of the life of Billy Pilgrim. ...

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