... killing of thousands of innocents, symbolizes the illogical. Time and memory also express the author's desolation when he witnessed the massacre of Dresden in the second world war. The science fiction elements of the novel include time travel. Billy travels in time(" Billy has gone to sleep a senile widower and awakened on his wedding day. He has walked through a door in ... where we immediately form a mental picture of the character. one must remember the complexities of this particular novel. It is also a very complex novel because it is of science fiction and non-fiction, and also be...

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... been famous for stretching the imagination of the reader. Even though "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, is not a "hard" Science Fiction story, since it show no relevance to real natural science; like Biology or Chemistry. It is taking the social views of Political Science, and putting that into focus. In addition, ... narrator told the story as it went along, and made points of past events to help accommodate the reader, on what was going on. The idea of telling a "soft" Science Fiction story is to tell a scientific view of the future, using subjective views. For example, the main ...

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Kurt Vonnegut is the writer of the, "Breakfast of Champions," which is a postmodern literary work where Vonnegut attempted to make several ethical or moral stances about various topics through his fiction. One of those stances is the concept of the free will. He reflects his own ideas about the concept of free will by using the characters he created. There is ... make reader question his existence and the choices that they makes are really belong to them. It can be said that he was pretty successful delivering his thoughts through his fiction. That stance is portrayed both in the book and...

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... wise. They mostly have a very poor plot (or none at all) and the emphasis is put onto the rather comic and pathetic characters. Kurt Vonnegut also very often uses science fiction and comic book formulas (quick action, short dialogues etc.), which usually puts his books onto bookstore shelves marked "sci-fi". Vonnegut, however, doesn't take the sci-fi elements with the ... same seriousness as the other sci-fi writers, and that probably makes the difference between his works and science fiction. I read and summarized three of his works: Cat's Cradle, Harrison Bergeron, and Slaughterhouse ...

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In Fates Worse Than Death, an autobiographical collage of the 1980's, the reader gets acquainted with a Kurt Vonnegut non fiction postmodern narration. Vonnegut normally, like partly in this lecture, combines science fiction, social satire and black comedy. In this case he clarifies, with a satirical and ironical tone, the inevitable fate of death which every living organism sooner or later has to face. ... ...

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Published in January of 1962, Kurt Vonnegut's 2 B R 0 2 B focuses on a not so distant future in which human beings have cured disease, conquered old age, and even cheated death. In this story, Vonnegut displays his image of a dystopian society through the use of imagery, theme, and time period. In 2 B R 0 2 B, (where the number 0 is pronounced as "naught" to rephrase Hamlet's iconic question) "There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So was old age. Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers." (2). This nu...

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... was in the prisoner camp and had excreted his brains. He does this to make the book seem more realistic, as it is easy to be swept away in the fiction of it. Vonnegut is trying to remind readers that this actually did happen to a real living and breathing person, even if it sounds incredibly ridiculous. Another "rule" of ... ...

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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. This anti-war novel centers on Billy Pilgrim, a meek, feeble optometry student who gets drafted into World War II and becomes "un-stuck in time"; ... ...

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... . One is on Billy's past war experiences, which are grounded in facts; another is his "real" life in Ilium as a husband, father, and optometrist; and the third is his science fiction adventure of traveling through time and being held prisoner on the planet Trafalmadore. None of these are told in order, and because of Billy's ability to travel into the future ... ...

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... and even when older and more mature. Kurt Vonnegut gives a compelling account of the disadvantages of the continual choices life presents while bringing together the extremes of truth and science fiction. He delivers a serious message that clearly stresses that man has the free will to choose while at that same time his choices may in fact lead him to lose that ... ...

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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. Slaughterhouse-Five is a personal novel which draws upon Vonnegut's ... ...

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... is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." These characters are Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover. Kilgore Trout was a science fiction novelist that was a nobody to put in easy to understand terms. Dwayne Hoover is a Pontiac dealer, right on the verge of going insane. In this novel, it has flashbacks, and ... ...

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... the author survived the firebombing. But much to m surprise it wasn't. This book turned out to be a very interesting book, which had many aspects of life in it. The science fiction parts about time travel and the Tralfamadorians enhanced the book even more. If I was to give this book a grade out of ten it would be an eight. This booked showed ... ...

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