In the science fiction novels Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut uses an antiwar theme that war is like cancer to society and our planet, in order to prove that war is not justifiable under any consequence. In Slaughterhouse-Five, the main character is a veteran who has flashbacks to when he was in World War II. ... He criticizes the US's decision to bomb a civilian city in Slaughterhouse-Five and he criticizes the way America conducts itself. ... In Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut says that war machines will be the end o...

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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 5," by Kurt Vonnegut is literary masterpiece that reflects the horrors of war and death using science fiction and satirical approach. ... Kurt Vonnegut has his protagonist experience the horrors of war. ... 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-destroying pillar of oxidation; nor did...

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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 jumbled narrative structure is Vonnegut's way of telling his story of Dresden. The setting of Slaughterhouse-Five is wide-ranged, each place having a significant effect on Vonnegut's story through the life of Billy Pilgrim. ... Vonnegut having experienced war and imprisoned in Dresden himself. ... I believe this is what Vonnegut wanted the readers to get from this...

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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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Slaughterhouse Five is the story of a small, timid man named Billy Pilgrim. ... The author, Kurt Vonnegut, wrote this book in a non-sequential manner. ... 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...

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut I.Character List Billy Pilgrim - The main character of the novel. ... Vonnegut - In the first and last chapters, Vonnegut explains why he wrote this 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 ...

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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. ... A minor character is Vonnegut, the auther himself, who appears in the novel. In the first and last chapters, Vonnegut tells about himself, the story, and how he wrote it. Vonnegut actually appears as a character in some of the war scenes. ...

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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. ... Vonnegut wrote this book to show us the horrors that occur when the people look the other way when problems arise. ...

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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. ... MY COMMENTS: I've read several Kurt Vonnegut books in the past, including this one. 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. Vonnegut, in my opinion, is one of the greatest humanist writers of all time. ... Suddenly, Weary realizes that they are being watched by five German soldiers and a police d...

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