In Slaughterhouse Five, author Kurt Vonnegut brings this issue to light. ... The day after the bombing of Dresden, the protagonist of Slaughterhouse Five, Billy Pilgrim, emerges from a meat locker in which American prisoners of war were kept, and observes "The sky was black with smoke. ... Minor characters in Slaughterhouse Five also demonstrate being psychologically effected by the rigors of war as well. ... Slaughterhouse Five is really two books in one. The first, titled Slaughterhouse Five is about Vonnegut's struggle to write a book about Dresden. ...

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Human dignity in a life marked by death and mass murder is important to Slaughterhouse Five. ... "Why me?" ... The Tralfamadorian novel discussed at the beginning of the chapter is a model for Slaughterhouse Five. ... Slaughterhouse Five is, after all, an Earthling's version of a Tralfamadorian tale, and it is therefore guided by limits of human point of views and human doubt. ... And there is no answer. ...

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The men could not think of any particularly good memories or stories, and the narrator noticed that Mary, Bernard's wife (to whom Slaughterhouse Five is dedicated), seemed very angry about something. ... He gives us the first line and the last, and the central story of the novel is ready to begin. ... It has been a couple of years since I first read Slaughterhouse Five, and I'm glad I got the chance to read it again. ... Billy goes to 1957, when he gives a speech as the newly elected president of the Lion's Club. ... Suddenly, Weary realizes that they are being watched by...

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The pacifist author Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five in the late 1960's as the Vietnam War was ending. ... It is to this man, Gerhard Muller, as well as to O'Hare's wife Mary, that Vonnegut dedicates Slaughterhouse-Five. ... While teaching at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Vonnegut lands a three-book contract, of which Slaughterhouse-Five is the first. ... Billy is suddenly giving a speech in 1957 as the newly elected president of the Ilium Lions Club. ... It reads: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, an...

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He later said, "She could not understand that to give up my friends at Public School No. 43 would be for me to give up everything,"(2,2). ... What people like about me is Indianapolis... On February 13, 1945 the air raid sirens went off in Dresden, Vonnegut and some other POWs found refuge in an underground slaughterhouse, the basis of Slaughterhouse-Five. ... (7) These first two novels also introduce several themes that continue throughout much of Vonnegut's later work: the futility of trying to change the world and the necessity of change within the individual; the fatality of s...

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I shall try to answer the above question by firstly giving a formal definition of the concept under study. In continuing to answer this question I will then submit my own thoughts on the matter, illustrated with appropriate diagrams and photographs, as well as quoting the opinions of other individuals on this topic before finally giving a conclusion that will hopefully provide a definitive answer to this demanding question. ... For me, Mathematics is the creation of order from chaos, the application of rules to the anarchic world in which we live in order to achieve a definitive sol...

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If you have ever read the novel Slaughterhouse Five, you might be left asking yourself, who really is Pilgrim? ... This essay will give specifics that might just help prove that Billy is this person. ... This question can never be answered, but there are strong suggestions that might make many believe it is true. ... On page 172, Kilgore Trout says, AI put everything that happens to me in books.@ Maybe Trout was the only one that listened to the absurdity of Billy=s stories, and turned them into his own work. ...

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