The next well-known book Vonnegut wrote is "Slaughterhouse-Five," which follows the main character, Billy Pilgrim, as he suffers through flashbacks. However, Pilgrim believes that because he was in an alien zoo for a time, he is now time travelling. As the story progresses, bouncing from time to time, stories of Pilgrim's time in Dresden are shared, as well as some stories from Pilgrim's "future,"" an unlikely 1976. Following the stories, it becomes apparent how Pilgrim's mind has been warped and his stories are slightly unreliable. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Author Kurt Vonnegut was very fortunate to have the bulk of his writing years occur during a time in history in which he wrote Slaughter House Five. If this book were written in present day, I fear it would be about as broadly circulated as a Kilgore Trout novel. Slaughter House Five is a fictitio...

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Author Kurt Vonnegut was very fortunate to have the bulk of his writing years occur during a time in history in which he wrote Slaughter House Five. If this book were written in present day, I fear it would be about as broadly circulated as a Kilgore Trout novel. Slaughter House Five is a fictitio...

• Word Count: 1646
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This anti-war novel centers on Billy Pilgrim, a meek, feeble optometry student who gets drafted into World War II and becomes "un-stuck in time"; he travels forwards and backwards to different places and points in his life. ... He was sent there as prisoner of war, which the antagonist in the novel, Billy Pilgrim, was as well. ... Vonnegut used his encounter with war as a direct inspiration for Billy Pilgrim's. ... Progressing on that statement, death is a horrible thing. ... It was the result of him trying to get us (the readers) to realize how bad war really is and what he exp...

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The main character is Billy Pilgrim who is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself. Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim, emerged from a meat locker beneath a slaughterhouse into the moonscape of burned-out Dresden. ... The wallpaper outline represents each character in a different color of crayon, with a line for each progressing through the story's chronology. ... In chapter two Billy Pilgrim believes that he has "come unstuck in time." ...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...

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• Grade Level: High School