... woman. Billy dozes off and drifts back to a moment in 1944. Roland Weary is shaking him; Billy tells the Three Musketeers to go on without him. The plane crashes into Sugarbush mountain in Vermont, and Billy survives with a fractured skull. Austrian ski instructors wearing black ski masks arrive on the scene. As they check for signs of life, Billy whispers "Schlachthof-Funf" ("Slaughterhouse-Five" in German), a phrase ... World War II. He has to write a section on the smashing success of Dresden's bombing, despite the fact that some of his sources characterize it as an unnecessary carna...

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• Grade Level: High School

... counter the resistance by creating a major motion picture to, what he says, "Tell the story of our fighting men in Vietnam with reason, emotion, characterization, and action in a manner that will inspire a patriotic attitude on the part of fellow Americans." The film ... the three lead characters, Michael, Nick, and Steven, through their work in front of the blast furnace, their after hours at the neighborhood bar, and, especially, their hunting in the mountain peaks for bucks. In particular, Cimino went to great lengths to create the central, mythical image of the ... The sheriff does n...

• Word Count: 3681
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate