Kurt Vonnegut: A Literary Analysis

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Is it not on the normal we hear about PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) from former veterans go through. They struggle to keep calm and collected visiting through flashbacks from war and maybe other memories that may not be true. Facing trying to have a normal life after being a prisoner of war (POW). Kurt Vonnegut writes using the setting he seen in his life, making a war drama from a first person experience making it fictional at the same time an autobiography. Being free from war is just illusive according to Kurt Vonnegut. Even though I never been to war I see him trying to show that war hinders us mentally through encounters in war.
One of the great literary devices is setting. Throughout the story there are three different setting. …show more content…

At the same time, the moments of the stress and memories that are driving him crazy are really temporary. Once Billy leaves the hospital, he loses control again. Then he is shipped to Dresden, which he was departed from the veteran hospital lead to his marriage to Valencia. I see these as places from the war and after that lets you know he is still trapped in a mind war set the from the reflection of the Germans in the Tralfamadorians
When it comes to literary devices of course genre has to be in the top of those because genre changes how you read a book as in to take it serious or to see where they going with the story.
A form of genre that was I seen while reading this book would be an autobiography. It’s not fully about him, but since it has truths from Kurt Vonnegut’s life more straight forward, what happened to him in Dresden. Most of the narrative is focused on the fictional character also.

Slaughterhouse-Five is also predominantly about various features of war such as how much it sucks , also how much it trips people up after it happens, and also how commonly one-sided life is that we have to go fight in wars and then mature and die afterwards. So that's why relating Slaughterhouse-Five as a war drama mainly does the plot concentrate on World War II, but the book also applies a lot of time pondering war as an experience that affects us through eh long

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