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...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 5323
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1368
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School