1. Book Report- Slaughter House-Five
The pacifist author Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five in the late 1960's as the Vietnam War was ending. He used his own military experience from World War II to write this particular book. The main character is Billy Pilgrim who is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself. Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim, emerged from a meat locker beneath a slaughterhouse into the moonscape of burned-out Dresden. His surviving captors put him to work finding, burying, and burning bodies. His task continued until the Russians came and the war ended. Dresden is a city in Germany that was heavily bombed during World W...
... inequalities of America's economic system, and the miserable behavior of American POWs. Billy falls asleep and wakes up in 1968, where his daughter Barbara is scolding him. Barbara notices the house is icy cold and goes to call the oil-burner man. Billy leaps in time to the Trafalmadorian zoo, where Montana Wildhack, a movie star, has been brought in to mate ... man his two treasures from the lining of his coat: a two-carat diamond and some false teeth. The Americans are brought to their new home, a converted building originally for the slaughter of pigs. The building has a large 5 on i...
If you have ever read the novel Slaughterhouse Five, you might be left asking yourself, who really is Pilgrim? Although he is the main character from the novel, there are comparisons in the novel that describe him as being another person. The most interesting comparison may be that of a character out of Kilgore Trout's novels. There are several of his stories that are described that are extremely similar to pits and pieces of Billy's life. This leads to the question of, is Billy Pilgrim just a character from a Kilgore Trout novel? This essay will give specifics that might just help prove that ...
The novel, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, follows the life of Billy Pilgrim. February 13, 1945 was when the German city of Dresden was bombed, but Billy survived the awful experience. He instinctively feels incredible guilt, not understanding why he survived when so many others died. This is why Billy invents a world where life and death are meaningless and feelings of guilt disappear. This alien world is called Tralfamador and it provides Billy with an escape. After being abducted by the aliens, he learns that life is made up of moments, but once they are over they are not gone forever...