Themes of Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt vonnegut and Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

Also in the short story How to Tell a True War Story by Tim O’ Brien he explains how war can

This quote in the first chapter of the book sets the overall tone. The author Tim O’Brien uses his language through out the book in an extremely straightforward manner. He does not sugar coat the way going to war and being in a war is. He does not use stories of heroes,

As you have read war is a very different type of world everything is turned around and it confuses people. The author of the book The Things They Carried and the writer of the quote "It has been said of war that it is a world where the past has a strong grip on the present, where machines seemed sometimes to have more will power than me, where nice boys (girls) were attracted to them, where bodies ruptured and burned and stand, where the evil thing trying to kill you could look disconnecting human and where except in your imagination it was impossible to be heroic." relates to each of his stories. Wrote about war so people could have a better understanding of

First, the reader must understand just what makes a good "war story". The protagonist of the novel, Tim O'Brien, gives us his

The Wars, written by Timothy Findley, is a story about World War I, and consists of many shocking images passed over to the reader. Findley accomplishes to pull the reader into the narrative itself, so that the reader manages to feel an impact upon him/her-self about what is read. If it was not for this specific skill, or can also be seen as a specific genre, the novel would not have been as successful as it is now. Also, something that helps the book be so triumphant, there is the fact that Findley never overwhelms the reader with too many gruesome details about the World War I. Instead, he breaks the book down to help the reader calm down from everything that is happening. Throughout the essay, there is going to be some commenting on a

and exposes the nature of all war stories.( New York Times, "Book of the Century"). Tim

One of the most reoccurring discussions on Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five seems to be on the meaning of the book. Straight into his

People view war in a variety of different viewpoints. Not everyone believes it is negative. In the novel, The Things They Carried, Tim O’brien explains his perspective on war. He believes that many people are quick to brush away the fact that war is truthfully an astonishing event.

Seaman and Hally are both heros. Seaman was there for when things like buffalo bulls and Indians attacked. Hally is a hero because

In his novel he decided to look at the war and the characters

When he tells Billy that he needs to figure it out and snap out of it, Billy says, “ You guys go on without me. I’m all right” (Vonnegut 47). This just displays the hopelessness in Billy’s life. The war has driven him to lose touch with himself and not value his own life. This makes it very easy for a reader to feel empathy for Billy and get an idea of how war can really affect these men. Billy isn’t the only character that Vonnegut uses to depict the terrors of war.

Something interesting about the book is the point of view of the writer. He never once described war as only one thing or as good or bad. He describes it as a lot of things because there is no simple answer to describe a thing as complex as war. The book says “War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war

The author Kurt Vonnegut and a filmmaker, Harrison Starr, converse in this passage, which introduces the topic of Slaughterhouse-Five. In which Starr makes fun of Vonnegut’s idea for planning on making Slaughterhouse-Five an anti-war novel

“Want is both parent and child of war.” (Counsel) Every war taken on between nations has had a motive reflecting the combatants. For each motive in the combatant, there is equal and opposite motive in opposing the belligerent. War is a complicated combinations of values, ideas, desires, and other such virtues. Literature reflects the core values of the participants in views of the man fighting, the man who will fight, and the man who will never fight. In the works of Dickens, Remarque, Wiesel, and Knowles, a different group is being represented. Each author of captures their time period in a way the engulfs the war and its causes. At the core, war intrinsically can be held at values of wanting a better future, resisting

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is not a bad book. I will continue to admit that while the first chapter reminds me of A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, the second chapter made up for all the annoyance that had started to accumulate since the beginning. I am going to do my best to make this response journal as coherent as possible, but I will admit that there are some components in this novel that I just cannot find the appropriate words for.