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In his novels, Vonnegut aims to educate readers towards a greater understanding of the human condition (Priest). He imbues Slaughterhouse-Five with a moral about war: it dehumanizes and destroys everything in its path (Priest). Billy’s story helps to expresses the Tralfamadorian saying “so it goes” as a crude life philosophy, “shit happens” (Gordon). The most memorable part of the story, the phrase retains fame not for the expression behind the words but the lack of. These “world-weary words simultaneously accept and dismiss everything” (Gordon). Vonnegut’s experience in war helps him tell the story of the greatest trauma in his life, Dresden, in the only way he knows how. Slaughterhouse-Five skillfully epitomizes Tralfamadorian teachings,

Where innumerous catastrophic events are simultaneously occurring and altering the mental capability of its viewers eternally, war is senseless killing. The participants of war that are ‘fortunate’ enough to survive become emotionally distraught civilians. Regardless of the age of the people entering war, unless one obtains the mental capacity to witness numerous deaths and stay unaffected, he or she is not equipped to enter war. Kurt Vonnegut portrays the horrors of war in Slaughterhouse Five, through the utilization of satire, symbolism, and imagery.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is one of the most well known World War II authors. His humble beginnings and early life misfortunes shaped not only his writings, but also his view of the world. His imprisonment in Dresden in World War II, however, formed his opinions about war at an early age and later inspired many of his works and style of writing. After the returning from World War II, Vonnegut voiced his sentiments through his writing that war was wasteful and uncivilized. Vonnegut developed a unique blend of sadness, satire, and simplicity, along with his ability to understand the audience, which made his novels comprehensible and inspirational to any

In the first chapter, which serves as an introduction, Vonnegut directly addresses the reader, pointing out his attitude towards war. The author makes it clear that he sees it as something ugly and horrifying, however, it seems like he is resigned to the fact that war will always exist. In one passage Vonnegut recounts a conversation with real-life director Harrison Starr. When Vonnegut explained that he was working on an antiwar book, Harrison said “You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing anti-war books? ... I say, ‘Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’”(3). Vonnegut informs the reader that what Harrison meant by these words of course, “was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers”(3). In this quote, Vonnegut’s compares war with the glaciers. There has always been war just like there have always been glaciers. But there will not always be glaciers since they will all eventually melt and when they do, we will suffer. We are unable to live without glaciers, and we are unable to live without war either. No matter how great his anti-war novels are, Vonnegut doesn’t expect them to change society since he already knows that war is unstoppable.

War is a tragic experience that can motivate people to do many things. Many people have been inspired to write stories, poems, or songs about war. Many of these examples tend to reflect feelings against war. Kurt Vonnegut is no different and his experience with war inspired him to write a series of novels starting with Slaughter-House Five. It is a unique novel expressing Vonnegut's feelings about war. These strong feeling can be seen in the similarities between characters, information about the Tralfamadorians, dark humor, and the structure of the novel.

Kurt Vonnegut is against war. He thinks it’s over glorified and often makes statements in his book to show that. In the beginning of the book, he says “You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing an anti-war book? I say ‘Why not write an anti-glacier book instead?” He says this because war is always going to happen and writing a book about it isn’t going to make it stop.

Before one can fully understand Kurt Vonnegut's ideas and opinions about war, it is vital to know the history of Vonnegut as a prisoner of war. Vonnegut's troop was captured and taken to a camp in Germany in tiny and absolutely awful box cars

Kurt Vonnegut was a man of disjointed ideas, as is expressed through the eccentric protagonists that dominate his works. Part cynic and part genius, Kurt Vonnegut’s brilliance as a satirist derives from the deranged nature of the atrocities he had witnessed in his life. The reason Vonnegut’s satire is so popular and works so well is because Vonnegut had personal ties to all the elements that he lambasted in his works. Vonnegut’s experience as a soldier in WWII during firebombing of Dresden corrupted his mind and enabled him to express the chaotic reality of war, violence, obsession, sex and government in a raw and personal manner. Through three works specifically, “Welcome to the Monkey House,” “Harrison Bergeron,” and Slaughterhouse-five,

Most science fiction novels and other novels that incorporate “out of this world ideas” have long been regarded as not true forms of literature. This is due to the nature that the majority of Sci-Fi novels are written for entertainment purpose alone and do not provide much thought and discussion. Despite this, Kurt Vonnegut is today known for writing books that have multiple levels and require the reader to think about what he or she just read. In his semi autobiographical novel, Slaughter House Five, Vonnegut is able to write about events that he experienced during World War 2 while introducing topics of a science fiction novel such as aliens and time travel. Vonnegut uses these science fiction elements to tell a story that has literary merit

Kurt Vonnegut’s book, Slaughterhouse-Five, an antiwar book that took 23 years to write, is not what he thought it would be. He explained early on to

In the book “Slaughterhouse Five” the author talks about Kurt Vonnegut coming back from the war. Vonnegut called all of his old friends to exchange story’s about the war and with intent to gain information to write a book. In “How to Tell a True War Story” the author talks about how you can’t tell a true war story because people won’t believe the horrible truth. Both these texts talk about the horrors of war and how people that don’t see what happens in first hand won’t believe the truth. Kurt Vonnegut enlisted in the army later to be captured and held prisoner; Kurt has trouble recalling exactly what happened.

Kurt Vonnegut expresses the theme of pacifism by using humor to depict war in a negative light through his personal experiences. One of the best examples of Vonnegut using his personal experiences to portray the theme of pacifism is his novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Slaughterhouse-Five is about Billy Pilgrim, who is an unlikely hero who has become unstuck in time. He visits a lot of different time periods in his life out of order. In the book, Vonnegut describes his experiences by having Billy Pilgrim go through the bombing in Dresden just as he did.

Kurt Vonnegut’s personal experiences of World War II and the firebombing of Dresden were important factors in determining his writing style and the political and philosophical views that it conveyed. Throughout his works, the overarching message that Vonnegut delivers is the need for love and compassion in a world where humans are helpless against an indifferent fate.

Kurt claims that “you know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books? [...] I say, "Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?” (4). Even though war is something that would never change but talking about it and trying send the message about the negative impact it has on the world natural resources is a great idea Kurt introduce and analyzed in his book. The glory of war shouldn't be praised. Slaughterhouse-Five is about the least glamorous account of life as a soldier you can imagine. When he claims that “You were just babies in the war—like the ones upstairs! [...] But you're not going to write it that way, are you [...] You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs.”(18) This show that Kurt's not really trying to glorify war in his novel. If war has been prevented in the early years some country would be doing really great in terms having natural resources and money. It's because can lead to waste of money and destruction of many natural resources. Billy's Tralfamadorian philosophy and reverse shows that when he claims that “They did the same for the wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation [...] Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new”(93, 94). Vonnegut conveys his strongly anti-war opinion to the reader. And just to mention war shouldn't be praised or glorified because it has a huge negative

Mr. Kurt Vonnegut was an American author who is well known for several novels such as slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, & God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.