... concentration camps by means of trains. They were packed into the trains like sardines. Inside the trains they had to stand for 12 hours or more depending on where they were sent. It was hot and hard to breathe. There was no food or bathrooms. People were crying and panicking. Concentration camps were places were Jews were confined and kept under terrible conditions ... killed within minutes of arriving; others were kept in the camps and used for slave labor. People who lived in the camps had to say goodbye to family members and most were never seen again. Those kept had to go through t...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... 's Workshop, Vonnegut lands a three-book contract, of which Slaughterhouse-Five is the first. It is so short and jumbled, he explains, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. On the way to Dresden, Vonnegut spends a night in a Boston hotel, where his perception of passing time becomes distorted, ... The following month, Billy writes a letter to his local paper about the aliens. The day the letter is published, Billy is hard at work on his second letter to the Ilium newspaper about the lessons he learned when he was taken to the planet Tralfamadore. He is glowing wit...

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• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School