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    friends and family members. Being alone can have an even greater negative effect on the mind and even the body. Much like the experiences Billy Pilgrim, a victim of PTSD, went through because of the war. Isolation is also a major theme in Slaughterhouse Five.

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    The book titled Slaughterhouse-Five written by Kurt Vonnegut was assigned to us the class of 2017 from High Tech High School. Kurt who is the author of this book was a descendant of German-American families. He enlisted for the U.S. army while he attended the college of Cornell. He was taken prisoner of the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium. Eventually he got married and was part of the anthropology program at the University of Chicago. He finally just dedicated himself to full-time

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    Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., is the tale of a gawky World War II veteran/soldier, Billy Pilgrim. His wartime experiences and their effects lead him to the ultimate conclusion that war is unexplainable. To portray this effectively, Vonnegut presents the story in two dimensions: historical and science-fiction. The irrationality of war is emphasized in each dimension by contrasts in its comic and tragic elements. The historical seriousness of the Battle of the Bulge and the bombing of

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    “Slaughterhouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut is historical and science fiction novel about a man named BIlly Pilgrim and his life, mostly focusing on the time he spent in Dresden during World War II. The book takes place all throughout the 1900’s. Slaughterhouse is written in both first and third person, it goes back and forth from New York and Germany. Billy Pilgrim the antagonist the protagonist is this story because he is fighting against himself. The major conflict in this book is Billy trying to get

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    Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five has an exceedingly strange plot structure, if such a term can even be used to describe it. Traditional novels adhere to the basic outline of Freytag’s pyramid; they consist of exposition, rising actions, a climax, falling actions, and a denouement. Slaughterhouse-Five contains all these components in a muddled and out-of-order fashion. Vonnegut violates the structure of Freytag’s pyramid intentionally and instead follows the mind of Billy Pilgrim, who has a tenuous

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    The final chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five begins by Vonnegut realizing that the ruthlessness of the world, and humans, does not only happen in warfare, but also outside of it. Vonnegut experienced the harsh, violent nature of humans in warfare. As Vonnegut went through these experiences he witnessed the ruthlessness of humans. Along with mature language and harsh violence, Vonnegut goes through some sexual experiences as he went forward, and back, into time. Slaughterhouse-Five also incorporates great

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    Slaughterhouse Five, a novel written by Kurt Vonnegut, depicts unchronological and sometimes nonsensical moments of the life of Billy Pilgrim as he “become[s] unstuck in time”(Vonnegut S. Five 23) Billy has no control over where he will end up next. “He has seen his birth and death many times, and he pays random visits to all the events in between”, and “is in a constant state of fright, ... because he never knows which part of his life he is going to have to act out next.”(Vonnegut S. Five 23)

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    In Slaughterhouse-Five, many of Kurt Vonnegut’s experiences during his lifetime were put into the book by his style of writing and the story he told. Kurt Vonnegut is an American writer born on November 11, 1922. When Slaughterhouse- Five first came out many people had a different opinion on it because of the style it was written in. The way Vonnegut wrote it was differently than many other stories. He told his life through another person, Billy Pilgrim. In the novel Vonnegut tells his story of surviving

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    3.1. The Narrator of Slaughterhouse-Five In the first chapter of the Slaughterhouse-Five we are introduced to the narrator, later identified as Vonnegut, while he narrates the first chapter in metaficional talking about his inspirations, difficulties and experiences behind writing Slaughterhouse-Five: I thought it would be easy for me to write about the destruction of Dresden, since all I would have to do would be to report what I had seen. And I thought, too, that it would be a masterpiece

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    porn stars; Slaughterhouse-Five has something interesting for any kind of reader. It’s a funny and clever novel that draws readers in with its charm and delivers a meaningful message. Instead of making a book hyping himself up as a war hero, Kurt wrote a meaningful tribute to a friend who suffers from the traumatic effects of war. Through his creative use of Satire, Kurt Vonnegut showes his readers that war causes a disconnect from reality. The first chapter of Slaughterhouse Five is entirely about

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