Slaughterhouse Five

In order to indirectly evaluate the nonsensical conflict of Dresden and the war overall in Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut uses subtle symbolic links between a variety of events in Billy Pilgrim’s journey, suggesting that Billy is not unstuck in time, but rather psychologically traumatized by the war and all the experiences he’s collected. His experiences have…

Slaughterhouse-Five takes place in the 1900s before, during, and after World War 2. The book begins with the narrator discussing the fact that he was looking for his old war buddy O’Hare to help him write his anti-war book. When he found O’Hare, he noticed O’Hare’s wife was enraged by his presence, when he found…

World War 1 was coined, “The war to end all wars”, however, the uncomfortable conditions of trench warfare, and the inhumane use of mustard gas didn’t prevent the second world war from occurring. Accompanying the second round of global travesty was even more casualties on both sides of the field. Some of the anguish witnessed…

The Slaughterhouse Five, a novel written by Kurt Vonnegut, centers around the life of the protagonist and solo character Billy Pilgrim. Pilgrim grew up in New York and was very intelligent during his youth. He took Optometry classes and eventually was drafted into World War II. Prior to being shipped off, his father died. Death…

Catch 22 and Slaughterhouse-Five are two very unique books in there own ways. The similarities between the two books are vast numerous while the contrasts are subtle but powerful. Catch 22 is a war satire told in their-person narration. It tells the stories of World War 2 from the perspectives of different characters all of…

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s existential and metafictional text, Slaughterhouse Five, discusses the relationship between warfare and civility in the aftermath of World War 2. This novel expounds the theory behind societal pandemonic reinforcement through political carnage and explains how Vonnegut and those around him faced this commotion. Moreover, the book discusses the role society plays in…

Over three thousand tons of explosives dropped on one city, and an estimated twenty-five thousand people were killed. These are not just numbers, they are lives lost. This horrific outcome was the result of a firebombing in Dresden, Germany which took place during World War II in 1945. The novel Slaughterhouse-five, written by Kurt Vonnegut,…