Analysis Of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

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In Vonnegut’s book “Slaughterhouse Five” he explains in this excerpt the reaction of war from both perspectives. It begins with Billy and Weary arriving and seeing a motion-picture camera that was set up for filming a fabulous victory. The use of fabulous in this sentence is not commonly used to describe war, but the adjective fabulous would be described in the German’s perspective. Two men were wearing leaning by the camera are obviously Germans and “One of them singled out Billy's face for a moment, then focused at infinity again”, which means that these men were not interested in Billy and Weary. The repetition of the word “there” is referring to the infinite battle. “So it goes” motif is shown up again here which is used to describe death

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