Outline For The Awakening Essay

1. The Awakening was written by Kate Chopin in order to bring attention to the rising trends of feminism and individualism of the late 1800s. Throughout the novel, Chopin illustrates the struggles that all females had to endure and the possibilities of going against the norms and not conforming along with the rest of society.

2. Kate Chopin delivers The Awakening in a somber and serious tone. This is shown throughout the whole book, like in the quote, “She had forced herself to eat most of her soup, and now she was picking the flaky bits of a court bouillon with her fork” (page 42), and “Edna looked straight before her with a self-absorbed expression upon her face. She felt no interest in anything around her. The street, the children, the fruit

Kurt Vonnegut delivers Slaughterhouse-Five in a casual tone, which is ironic because so many terrible events are depicted in the novel. For example, whenever something bad happens or someone dies, the narrator just says, “so it goes”, as in the quote, “Before they got their names and numbers in that book, they were missing in action and probably dead. So it goes” (page 91). Most people would view these scenes as dark and depressing, but Vonnegut feels submissive towards these occurrences as they are just fate and the flow of life. Even though the purpose of novel is to give out serious messages, Vonnegut also uses elements of dark humor, such as in a scene where Billy Pilgrim is drunk and looking for the steering wheel, “He concluded that somebody had stolen it” (page 47). It turns out that Billy was in the back seat of the car but was too drunk to realize this which was why he could not find the steering wheel.

3. Slaughterhouse-Five is mainly about the harmfulness of war. Not about the war in general, Vonnegut specifically focuses on prisoners of war and how the privilege of being in control of what they do and where they go was viciously taken away from them. The initial detriment of war is its destruction of the world, but the greater damage that war leaves is the lasting effect on the people who had to live through all the