Slaughterhouse Five - Analysis
Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade, first published in 1969, was Kurt Vonnegut's response to the horrible massacre at Dresden, Germany. Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse Five during troubled times in America. There were the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the march of blacks against racial inequality, and the widely unpopular involvement in Vietnam, where the Americans dropped more explosive power than all of the countries combined in World War II. Even though Vonnegut intended his novel to be an anti-war novel, he acknowledged that his efforts were most likely futile. Vonnegut likened being anti-war to being anti-glacier, meaning that wars, like glaciers, will always exist. Vonnegut added, "And, even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death." (p. 3)Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922- ) is an accomplished novelist, playwright, and artist. Although sometimes viewed as a science-fiction writer, Vonnegut gained most of his renown as a social satirist. He fought in WWII as a member of the U.S. Army from 1942-1945, and was a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany during the American bombardment that leveled the city and claimed over 130,000 lives. Vonnegut is also know
Vonnegut's disjointedness shows again that there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre, and his thoughts are disorderly. Vonnegut talks about the process of writing his novel, which he figured would be an easy task, but turned out to be much longer process than he expected. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade. because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. At a few different times in the novel Vonnegut describes the smell of his breath as "mustard gas and roses". Many people would argue Vonnegut's statements, and say that Vonnegut was actually able to write a beautiful masterpiece out of a compilation of terrible moments. Works Cited:Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.
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