Kurt Vonnegut: A Literary Analysis

Every person strikes a breaking point at some point in their life due to some sort of issue that has occurred. These are the people that shape our world into what it is today. Kurt Vonnegut, a deceased but not forgotten writer that is known for his unique characteristics and eye-catching elements that create an unforgettable book, would agree with the fact that there are several things to love about life, but that we need to keep in mind that life is not a fairytale, meaning that you should not expect perfection in your daily life because perfection simply does not exist. In the story 2BR02B, Kurt Vonnegut conveys the theme the world is not always a bright place to live in by using different examples or external conflict,

Thus, the story centers around an extremely wealthy, privileged man who opts to spend all his time and money helping the both materially and spiritually poor, and the attempts of a lawyer, bankers and family declaring him insane. Vonnegut examines troubling social issues that he sees pervading America: excessive wealth alongside dire poverty; attitudes that make the poor, despised, even by themselves; purposelessness, bred alike by unemployment and unearned riches; and the loneliness, depression, and suicidal complexes generated by such an economic and moral structure. Deconstruction serves a dual role in our analysis work both as a preparatory technique to get research data ready for use in other ways; and a method of exposing, and testing assumptions deeply embedded in our mental models.

Before I began elementary school, I enjoyed reading picture books, the touch and feel books and pop-up books. I loved the author Dr. Suess, because he was funny and because I loved the rhyming he did in his writing. I can remember before bed, my mom or dad would read to me until I got old enough to read myself. My mom has always enjoyed reading, if she is not reading a book, then she is reading a recipe or a magazine. My dad on the other hand, I have only seen him read one book, besides reading manuals for his tools. Reading was not a big deal in my house, all of us kids were told that we needed to read, but they did not force us to read. This brings me to Richard Rodriguez’s essay, in his household reading was not as important, but once he got to school, he realized that reading is one of the main activities. I can relate to Rodriguez because in either one of our households we weren’t told that we had to read before we did something else. Once I got to elementary school is when I realized that reading was not for me. Before school, I enjoyed reading, then once I began elementary school, I was forced to read, take tests over books, and read out loud in front of the class which made reading a chore.

Americans often refer to World War II as the good war. Allied troops fought Hitler and citizens welcomed them home with countless parades. But, many events that occurred during the war were often overlooked because they casted a bad light on the American war effort. The bombing of Dresden, Germany is one of the most notable examples of America ignoring it's past. In Slaughterhouse Five, the protagonist Billy Pilgrim bears witness to the atrocities of Dresden. Kurt Vonnegut uses action, diction, and style in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five to critique America’s inability to accept the events of World War II.

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is the story of a man named Billy Pilgrim who time travels through his own life, and becomes ‘unstuck’ in time after being abducted by aliens. In the story he eventually loses himself and his relationship with his daughter. Though the story takes place in a non chronological order, this book is considered semi-autobiographical because events in this book had actually taken place and affected Vonnegut himself. Social commentary in this book are based solely off of violence and self loss.

In the book Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, the main character, Billy is described in a way that makes American soldiers in war seem non-worthy. Vonnegut shows that the Americans are not ready for war in several ways. Some of the ways that they are not ready for wars are not being trained well enough, being rude, and by the way they are dressed for war.

The firebombing of Dresden by the Allies took as many as 135,000 innocent lives (A&E). Among those firebombed, there was Kurt Vonnegut, a U.S. POW during World War II being held captive by the Nazis (A&E). Strategically, the firebombing was senseless (A&E). Many have speculated that the purpose of the bombing was to disrupt the Nazi war machine, which would make sense if it wasn’t for the fact that Dresden contained no heavy industry (A&E). The Allies also stated that it was a strategic communication point used by the Nazis, something they could never prove (A&E). Many today believe that the true motive for the bombing was to punish the Germans for their own atrocities (A&E). When looked

vonnegut could have made his literary work much more appealing when he had made this short story as a tease to the public and see if it was positively reviewed by the readers, then deciding to make it into a trilogy or a novel. if he had made this into a novel, backing it up with a great story behind the hg or what happened during the old ages that Mr Bergeron mentioned where everyone was competitively climbing each other the story could have a much bigger impact to readers of all

Vonnegut depicts the negative effects of having a perfectly equal society with the use of characters unable to express individually in the society.

Aristotle described plot as being unified through a beginning, middle, and end. Writers use this model in modern literature to display the linear progression of a story. However, the WWII satire Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut follows a non linear time progression to represent the anguish of the human mind as a result of trauma. Likewise, Vonnegut’s choice proves to be effective, as well as negate the need for Aristotle’s standard model of a narrative. The effectiveness of this unique timeline is made possible due to how Billy Pilgrim’s mind was altered by the war. Therefore, examination of specific aspects of Billy’s life reveals how the novel does not need to follow the standard linear time progression.

After the First World War, a new era began in art and literautre. The new

When I was fourteen years old I bought a copy of “Slaughter-house Five” at a bookstore in Lexington Kentucky. I was in Kentucky visiting my sister with my parents and we had stopped at the bookstore on our way back home. I was not a fast reader but I read the entire book on the car trip. From then on I was hooked on Kurt Vonnegut. What I liked about him wasn’t what I perceived to be his Sci-fi bent or his sarcastic tone, although to be honest it didn’t hurt. What I loved, and still love, about his books is his honesty. Of all the authors that I have read in my life, Vonnegut has always seemed to me to be the most honest, the anger that his narrators feel in his books is his anger, and it’s his frustration. Those books, “Slaughter-house

Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King have been assassinated. Bodies have been adding up from a war in Vietnam. Billy claims that Tralfamadorians don’t hold much interest in Jesus, but instead they like Charles Darwin, who believes that those that die are meant to die. The author tells us if that what Billy learned about living forever is true, he is not overjoyed. Vonnegut informs us that one of his nicest memories was his trip back to Dresden with his old war buddy, Bernard O’Hare. The plane ride is pleasant, and O’Hare shows Kurt Vonnegut an informational piece on how the world will double in population by 2000. Meanwhile, Billy is time-traveling back to 1945, in Dresden. Vonnegut and O’Hare are there as well. The prisoners are forced

Reading has been one of the most important things in my life since I was very young. Some of my earliest memories are of learning to read. Reading might actually have been the thing that brought me out of the either of infancy into the stream of consciousness in which I currently live my life, because I don't have any clear memory of life before I could read in some capacity. I used to read all of the billboards that I saw out loud to my mom as practice. I know that it was extremely annoying to hear every billboard in town everyday from the back seat of the car, but my mom encouraged and helped me and I'm sure that reading would not have been such an

In the story a baby of triplets were born. This raises the question of who lives and who dies. How does a parent decide which child to keep? Also what is the extent of things, a parent would do for their children? Someone birth which, is usually celebrated is now equivalent to someone else death. Somebody else has to