Essays About Slaughterhouse Five
Slaughterhouse FiveBilly Pilgrim is born in 1922 and grows up in Ilium, New York. A funny-looking, weak youth, he does well in high school, then he enrolls in night classes at the Ilium School of Optometry, and is soon drafted into the army. He serves as a chaplain’s assistant, is sent into the Battle of…
The destruction of Dresden was not “moral,” nor is any destruction, really. We as mere mortals do not have the right to judge what is moral or not, however. That jurisdiction is left to the powers that be. But, we can still make haphazard guesses as to what strikes us as moral and immoral. Killing…
Slaughterhouse-FiveCritics often suggest that Kurt Vonnegut’s novels represent a man’s desperate, yet, futile search for meaning in a senseless existence. Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, displays this theme. Kurt Vonnegut uses a narrator, which is different from the main character. He uses this technique for several reasons. Kurt Vonnegut introduces Slaughterhouse Five in the first person. In…
This first chapter, a preface, is insistent on the fact that the book is based on real events. Vonnegut, like our narrator, is a veteran of World War II, a former prisoner of war, and a witness to a great massacre, and that fact lends a certain authority to what follows. Vonnegut shares with us…
Description: Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1969.
Originally published: March 31, 1969
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
LC Class: PS3572.O5 S6 1994
Characters: Billy Pilgrim, Montana Wildhack, Wild Bob
Genres: Novel, Science fiction, Satire, War story, Metafiction, Dark comedy, Historical Fiction, Time Travel Fiction
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Genre | Dark comedy Satire Science fiction War novel Metafiction Postmodernism |
Publisher | Delacorte |
Publication date | March 31, 1969 |
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Take the very first sentence of Slaughterhouse-Five: “All of this happened or less.” It’s real, he’s saying. In a way. All of it. Well, some of it.Mar 19, 2019
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Series: | Slaughterhouse-Five |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 192 |
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