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. ... In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut uses structure and point of view to portray the theme that time is relative. The way Kurt Vonnegut structures Slaughterhouse-Five aids in the portrayal of the theme that time is relative. ... The point of view that Slaughterhouse-Five is written from also affects the way the reader fells about time after reading the novel. ... (Dunstan 1) Slaughterhouse-Five gives ...

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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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The Communities of Slaughterhouse Five There are many dynamic communities in the book Slaughterhouse Five. The main character, Billy Pilgrim, is a member of several of these communities and plays a drastically different role i...

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Slaughterhouse Five is the story of a small, timid man named Billy Pilgrim. ... The different forms of imagery in Slaughterhouse Five are one of Vonnegut's primary tools for bringing this nonlinear story together. ... At one point when the Americans are in Slaughterhouse Five, a fellow American-turned-Nazi named Howard Campbell is lecturing and trying to sway them into Nazism. ... Without Vonnegut's use of imagery, dark humour, and irony, Slaughterhouse Five would not be nearly as effective of an antiwar book as it is. ...

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut I.Character List Billy Pilgrim - The main character of the novel. ... Gernard Muller - The friendly cab driver who brought Bernard and Billy to the slaughterhouse in which they were held prisoner in. ... Conflict In Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim is both the protagonist and antagonist because of his internal struggle. ... Plot Summary Addressed as an anti-war novel about the bombings of Dresden in World War II, Slaughterhouse-Five is a fictional story written by Kurt Vonnegut to create the sense of what it may have been like to actually wit...

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Slaughterhouse-five, written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., is written in a non-linear style. ... The Tralfamadorian books are written in just the style that Slaughterhouse-five uses. ... Slaughterhouse-Five is a random collection of interesting stories and they don't really tie together except for the fact that they are all about Billy Pilgrim. ... Slaughterhouse-Five's style may be confusing at times, but it works very well with the overall themes that Vonnegut is trying to get across to the reader. ...

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"Slaughterhouse Five" Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a novel involving the character Billy Pilgrim. ... In fact, "Slaughterhouse Five" was not published until 23 years after the end of the war; 23 years of desolation and internal angst for Vonnegut. ... To understand "Slaughterhouse Five," one must first understand the author himself, Kurt Vonnegut. ... Vonnegut was not among the dead, and escaped death since he was in an underground slaughterhouse with other prisoners of war making vitamin supplements. ... Throughout Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five", Vonnegut displays the destructiveness of w...

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Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut appears to be a simplistic story of a man's experiences in World War II. To many people a may be just that. When the plot is looked at closer and the word choice and phrase such as "so it goes" are analyzed it proves to have a much greater meaning and message be...

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The novel Slaughterhouse Five is written by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Billy, some other Americans, and a few German guards hide in the basement of Slaughterhouse Five during the bombing and manage to escape unharmed. ...

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As readers of Kurt Vonnegut's literary masterpiece, "Slaughterhouse Five," we're told that the all the events of the story are true, more or less, and that Vonnegut experienced the Dresden bombings firsthand. ... The setting of Slaughterhouse-Five is wide-ranged, each place having a significant effect on Vonnegut's story through the life of Billy Pilgrim. ...

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Slaughterhouse Five gives us three views of moving forward: the Tralfamadorian's, Kurt Vonnegut's and poor Billy's view who is stuck in the middle. ... First, let us take a look at Kurt Vonnegut, the author of Slaughterhouse Five. ... In Slaughterhouse Five, Billy gets his phrase, "so it goes" from the Tralfamadorians. ... "So it goes" is very important in Slaughterhouse Five. ... Through Slaughterhouse Five he is able to teach us the true meaning of "so it goes....

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In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut's prophetic vision of time and travel reveals his philosophical view toward free will. Throughout Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut argues that the loss of free will is affected by a parallel of controllable and uncontrollable events that occur in the life of the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim. ...

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In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five he presents the Tralfamadorians as an influence on Billy for the belief of the idea that fate and free will doesn't exist but the existence of the Tralfamadorians is questionable, so is the idea of predestined life. ... Humor in Humans and World War II In the novel Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut uses black humor to reveal the darker side of humans and World War II. ...

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Reading Reaction to Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five sounded like a little above average book in the beginning. I was actually quite pleased that we were required to read it, because I would have probably of not made the right choice and have chosen it. I fou...

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In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut portrays how events shape a person's mindset by exploring the past, imaginary, and current world of the life of Billy Pilgrim. ... In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut portrays how events shape a person's mindset by exploring the past, imaginary, and current world of the life of Billy Pilgrim. ...

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(Revision) The book Slaughterhouse-Five is an effort by the author Kurt Vonnegut to try to deglamorize war. ... Take it moment by moment." (86) Vonnegut wrote the book Slaughterhouse-Five as if it was written for a Trafamadorian. ... Slaughterhouse-Five is a powerful and philosophical novel. ... Slaughterhouse-Five tries to show the error in our ways. ...

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Throughout Slaughterhouse-Five, both the narrator and Billy Pilgrim treat death as a tragic, yet inevitable, aspect of human life. The narrator imparts many deaths to the reader, but only in an indifferent tone. The reader, through the narrator's words, sees death as common and uninteresting. The na...

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Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five; His uncontrollable time traveling takes Billy back to his experiences in World War II and on the planet which is called Traflamadore. ... Tralfamadorian novels have a similar description to Slaughterhouse-5 itself. ...

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Although the real controversy lies in its use for essays and assignments by students, its use in fiction is equally as important; specifically, the use of alternative discourse in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five. Slaughterhouse Five is by no means written in a traditional way. ... Slaughterhouse Five is an entirely different story - literally. ... It is as if Vonnegut has taken this template as a model for Slaughterhouse Five, down to the rows of asterisks separating short clumps of text. ...

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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. ... The recurring theme "so it goes" is strategically placed 106 times in Slaughterhouse 5. ... He saw the beautiful city of Dresden before the attack, and the destruction after, "What he did not see from the inside of 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-destro...

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The pacifist author Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five in the late 1960's as the Vietnam War was ending. ... Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim, emerged from a meat locker beneath a slaughterhouse into the moonscape of burned-out Dresden. ... In a taxi on the way to the Dresden slaughterhouse that served as their prison, Vonnegut and O'Hare strike up a conversation with the cab driver about life under communism. 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 Works...

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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. ... 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. ... Suddenly, Weary realizes that they are being watched by five German soldiers and a police dog. ...

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Only when the author begins to think about time, about returning over and over to the events of someone's life, about "moments existing for eternity in no particular order", is he able to break through twenty years of writer's block, and write Slaughterhouse Five. ... Human dignity in a life marked by death and mass murder is important to Slaughterhouse Five. ... Chapter 3 Chapter Four introduces the Tralfamadorian concept of time, a concept that will be explained in Chapter Five. ... The Tralfamadorian novel discussed at the beginning of the chapter is a model for Slaughter...

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I read and summarized three of his works: Cat's Cradle, Harrison Bergeron, and Slaughterhouse five. ... When you examine Cat's Cradle, Harrison Bergeron, and Slaughterhouse five you are given a good idea of Vonnegut a writer, because it provides a cross section of his ideas and the themes he is attempting to portray. ... The theme of Slaughterhouse-Five, and perhaps the most obvious, is the war and its contrast with love, beauty, humanity, and innocence. Slaughterhouse-Five, like Vonnegut's previous books, manages to tell us that war is bad for us and that it would be bett...

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