... writer I (Vonnegut) thought I might become" (Klinkowitz 20). For several years, Vonnegut came very close to doing just that (Klinkowitz 20). Vonnegut was also isolated from the rest of society for a five month period of his life. From December 1944 to April 1945, Vonnegut was held captive by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He was captured during ... about this experience that Vonnegut wrote his most famous novel. The Swain twins took a terrible situation, and turned it into something productive. Vonnegut did the same thing when he wrote Slaughterhouse-Five. He took...

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