"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 ... Slaughterhouse-Five was a full day and night of high-explosive demolition of streets, buildings, monuments, houses, and living human organisms, followed by the towering cyclone of flame, the all-consuming, all-destroying pillar of oxidation; nor did he feel the giant vacuum that tore people's breath out of their lungs, that sucked their very bodies into the v...

• Word Count: 1071
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School