... . I really can't help it. There are so many important details in this novel, it's hard to leave any of them out. Some of the small characters, like Wild Bob, just help illustrate what happens in times of war. I'm trying to help you get the gist of the novel without you having to read it. I'm probably going to be up all night. Chapter Four In 1967, on his daughter ... ., a captured American who is now a Nazi. Campbell condemns the self-loathing of the American poor, the inequalities of America's economic system, and the miserable behavior of American POWs. Billy falls asleep and wakes up i...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . With his right hand raised, Vonnegut vows not to glorify war and promises to call his book The Children's Crusade. Later that night he reads about the Children's Crusade and the earlier bombing of Dresden in 1760. While teaching at the Iowa Writer'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 ... makes his eyes water. Roland Weary marches ahead of him, his feet raw and bloody from his ill-fitting clogs. The prisoners march into Germany and are taken to a railroad yard. A men...

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• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School