Seeking Slaughter Boy Valentine’s Day has never been a holiday that Bernd enjoyed. Forced niceties and lackluster sentiment are hardly his idea of romance. He slides out of bed being careful not to disturb his sleeping boyfriend and tiptoes down the hall. The silence of the night only interrupted by his footsteps and the faint snoring from the bedroom. His office is shrouded in darkness but he knew it by heart. He easily found his chair and sat down at his desk, in front of his computer. This is his time to himself. An electric hum accompanies the computer as it boots up. The hard drives and fans whirring to life. Bernd looks forward to blowing off a little steam. The monitor provides the only light in the room. His face and chest appear …show more content…
He has a response to his post. Armin and Bernd connect for the first time, facing each other through distant screens. A flurry of emails and online chats ensue and over the next month, they indulge in each other's fantasies. They speak only to their truths, their wants. Bernd describes what he wants to be done to his body in great detail and plays with the ideas of ways to be eaten. They discuss all the criteria that they would need for a meeting to be perfect. They create an ideal scenario online. Bernd types, “Thanks for your mail. You really turn me on…Winter with the temperature at around 5 to 15 degrees below freezing is good weather for slaughter. Great to be naked and tied in weather like that and to be driven to the slaughter. Where you then stun me and I collapse. You then hang me up, jerking, and cut my carotid artery. Warm blood flows. Everything goes routinely. I don’t have any chance to escape my slaughter at the last moment. It’s a real turn-on, the feeling of being at your mercy being in your possession. Having to give up my flesh” Bernd entertains the idea of Armin labeling his cuts of meat with paper and pinning it to him. Armin responds, “It’ll be awesome, anyway. Your tasty body on show like that. Spicing it…Tying you up will be no problem, I’ve got a rope and some cuffs for your hands and feet. I’ll really enjoy the bit with the needles. I’ll see if I can get hold of some really long ones. …show more content…
In a chatroom, Armin writes under the screen name Antrophagus, a fabled cannibal, a title he deems worthy of himself. “I’m looking forward to our meeting, it will definitely be really cool” typed Armin. It was still a few days before their scheduled meeting. “How do you know if it will taste good to you, or that the blood won’t make you sick?” asked Bernd. Armin confesses to having been readying himself by drinking his own blood. “It was quite tasty. Once I was drilling some holes and the drill slipped right into my hand, that was a real treat. Blood is the juice of life. It contains everything a person needs for nutrition” Armin responds. Bernd’s only concern is that Armin is able to go through with their plan, not wilt. Armin reassures him typing, “To bite into your penis will certainly not be easy - living flesh is somewhat more resistant than fried - but one thing is certain: our dream will be fulfilled.” They discussed covering Bernd’s tracks and Bernd assures Armin no one will know where he disappeared to. Armin explains his plans for Bernd’s body after he has killed him and slaughtered his carcass. He types, “After you’re dead, I’ll take you out and expertly carve you up. Except for a pair of knees and some fleshy trash (skin, cartilage, tendons), there won’t be much of you
Soldier Boys is a nonfiction book written by Dean Hughes. It was published in 2001, it is a book that was written about two boys during war time. There are two settings in this book, each of them are at the training camps where both of the characters are training. The main idea of this book is that two boys that wanted to be war heroes realize when they get there that it is nothing like they heard of it being like.
While walking downtown with her girlfriend, the author describes as, “[her] heart began to skip every other beat, pounding, pounding, pounding … [as she stood] paralyzed like a frightened, little jackrabbit.” Repetition of the word “pounding” in the text develops a fast pace, indicating the urgency and panic felt by the author; terms such as paralyzed are utilized to emphasize the urgent, panicked mood. However, sanguine moods still persist throughout the narrative. For example, in the opening paragraph the author describes how she, “watch[ed] the golden dots of morning light glide across [her] ceiling, [and she] melted into a feeling of peace specific to the freedom of early summer.” Terms such as “golden,” “glide,” “peace,” and “early summer” help the reader detect a placid mood in the text, directing the reader towards the state of contentment the author feels surrounding her relationship. Mood differentiations in the text, from the urgency of the narrator’s walk downtown to the tranquil peace of the narrator’s relationship, indicate the contrasting aspects of the LGBT+ community, both in terms of the impending fear of violence, and the love that is the
Anti-Semitism is the hatred and discrimination of those with a Jewish heritage. It is generally connected to the Holocaust, but the book by Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale shows the rise of anti-Semitism from a grassroots effect. Smith uses newspapers, court orders, and written accounts to write the history and growth of anti-Semitism in a small German town. The book focuses on how anti-Semitism was spread by fear mongering, the conflict between classes, and also the role of the government.
Kurt Vonnegut is the author of Slaughterhouse Five and he was a soldier during World War II. Slaughterhouse Five is a fictional story of what a man named Billy Pilgrim went through as a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II. Vonnegut experienced the bombing of Dresden in Germany when was a prisoner of war. Vonnegut's prison in Dresden, Germany was a slaughterhouse that the Germans forced the prisoners of war to live in. He relates some of his experiences during World War II to help him create the fictional story about Billy Pilgrim. Billy Pilgrim is a fictional character that Vonnegut created in order to somehow tell his store of Dresden. Most of Billy Pilgrim's experiences are similar to what Vonnegut actually experienced as a prisoner of war during World War II. PTSD is a disorder that disrupts someone's life keeping them from having an normal life because of a traumatic event that they experienced. PTSD is very common among soldiers returning from war because they went through many traumatic events during their deployment. It is very obvious to see that Vonnegut and Billy Pilgrim are suffering from PTSD after their deployment in Germany during World War II.
Many people are intrigued by Kurt Vonnegut’s borderline sci-fi, anti-war book Slaughterhouse-Five, and how it has survived throughout the ages. Kurt Vonnegut is an innovative best selling, award winning author of many book such as; Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse-Five etc.The book Slaughterhouse-Five has no beginning, middle or end past the first chapter so it is very common for Billy Pilgrim to “time bounce” from his childhood, to the war, and to his elderly years and not all in that order. Billy Pilgrim is a man that did not have the greatest luck when it came to being a soldier.For instance “He was a scrawny, untrained private with scraps for a uniform such a creature could walk through war, oblivious yet unscathed, while so many others with more appropriate attire and provisions perish”(Sparknotes Editor). Mr. Vonnegut lived through some of the events portrayed in the book Slaughterhouse-Five such as the American air raid of Dresden, Germany. On February 13-14, 1945 nearly 135,000 Germans were killed from the tragic firebombing of the city of Dresden,Germany. In the book Billy claims to have lived this tragic event several times over. Mr. Vonnegut was a soldier of the 423rd Infantry Regiment, and 106 Infantry Division and earned a Purple Heart for his service after being injured at the Battle of The Bulge (Vonnegut.com). Many soldier in our day and age that fought in WWII and after have suffered from PTSD. An estimated 7.8 percent of Americans will experience PTSD at some point in their lives, with women (10.4%) twice as likely as men (5%) to develop PTSD. About 3.6 percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 54 (5.2 mil...
to one of the worst air attacks in the history of man. By the end of the
Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five; or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is, as suggested by the title, a novel describing a crusade that stretches beyond the faint boundaries of fiction and crosses over into the depths of defogged reality. This satirical, anti-war piece of literature aims to expose, broadcast and even taunt human ideals that support war and challenge them in light of their folly. However, the reality of war, the destruction, affliction and trauma it encompasses, can only be humanly described by the word “war” itself. Furthermore, oftentimes this term can only be truly understood by those who have experienced it firsthand. Therefore, in order to explain the unexplainable and humanize one of the most inhumane acts, Vonnegut slants the hoarse truth about war by extrapolating it to a fantasy world. Through this mixture of history, reality and fantasy, Vonnegut is able to “more or less” describe what he believes truly happens in war yet, at the same time, reveal a greater truth about humanity's self-destructive war inertness. Vonnegut's use of fantasy in Slaughterhouse-Five unveils mundane war misconceptions as it rallies action against war through a comparison and contrast between the Tralfamadorian world and philosophy and Billy Pilgrim's existence and war experiences.
his knife and can’t bring himself to kill the pig, it is because he is
Slaughterhouse 5, also know as The Children’s Crusade, has its intent aimed at showing the innocent people that end up having to partake in war. Many scenes and characters in the book encompass this by reflecting the childish nature in each character or how ordinary they appear to be. The main character is the epitome of this theme, with Billy Pilgram being an otherwise bland (other than the fictional aspect of his “time travel” or the reality of his mental disorder), innocent, average American sent out to war. In my opinion, Billy is also a way for the author Kurt Vonnegut to put some of his own personal views and experiences into his book, since the entire first chapter is Vonnegut explaining his inability to write a serious book of his own first hand account of the Dresden Firebombing.
The Sudanese Civil war in 1987 broke out in southern Sudan and forced over twenty thousand young boys to flee from their families and villages. The young boys, most only six or seven years old, fled to Ethiopia to escape death or induction. They travelled thousands of miles before reaching the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. The survivors of this tragic migration became known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. Without the aid of the refugee camps and the support of America, the Lost Boys would not be educated, as successful as they are today or even alive.
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity” - Dwight D. Eisenhower. Kurt Vonnegut explains even when you don’t write about yourself, you will be writing about yourself. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is semi-autobiographical novel that depicts the story of Billy Pilgrim and explores the theme of war, and expresses Kurt Vonnegut’s anti-war thoughts. Kurt Vonnegut’s real life experience led him to develop such horrible feelings about war and led him to write about this feeling.
Kurt Vonnegut’s famous anti-war novel is written during World War II. It is focused around the firebombing of Dresden; the capital of the eastern German state of Saxony. According to History.com Allied forces bombed the city of Dresden killing between 35,000 and 135,000. As you can imagine this was a very gruesome time period which sets the mood of the novel. In the novel, Vonnegut does not refer to the class differences in society instead he refers more about the inequality of power and control and to do so he uses the soldiers being just children getting sent to war to fight and die without any say or control. Vonnegut uses many symbols and even creates a character, Billy Pilgrim to show the negative effects of war on a child.
creature stood before me, gnarling teeth, sharp enough to slice cleanly through my flesh. Skin, a sickish green, mounted with boils and sores, rough and jagged all over. Claws, double the size of the contorted figure, curled by it's side. The creature hunched over, as it were waiting to pounce any second, or maybe as if I was waiting for it to pounce. Now, I was more curious then frightful. My feet glued to the floor, my heart pounding heavily. I was to be a victim, slaughtered and eaten as the main course yet I still stood. The compelling need, to look the creature in the eye had taken over, and my chin lifted. Our eyes met, and my breath caught in my throat. My stomach churned, not at the sight of the horns that stretched from it's forehead,
The Best glared back at her with daggers laughing. “We hunt for our victims and this is where they end up. We call it our body-dumping chamber. Smell it child, smell it, smell the aroma of their rotten flesh.” He began to laugh at her, “Remember child, for this is where you will end up, if you do not obey. Now, are you good and scared?” He grabbed her by the arm, “let me show you more.”
“One cannot plan the unexpected” by Aaron King, means that no one knows what the future holds until it occurs. Just like the quote Patrick Maloney did not foresee his future when he explains to his wife ,Mary, that he was leaving her. As the reader, one did not expect that Mary would be capable of murdering her own husband out of desperation. “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl unveils the story of Mrs.Maloney and Mr.Maloney. Mary Maloney is hopelessly devoted to her husband, Patrick Maloney, and is awaiting her first child. Mary spends all of her time to make a sweet comfortable home for her husband when he arrives from work. Mrs.Maloney appears to love her husband throughout the beginning of the story but shockingly murders her husband due to his infidelity. Since she was a detective’s wife, she manages to put her emotions aside and covers her tracks. Mary acts fast upon the murder and comes up with a believable alibi. The detectives investigated throughout the house but it was all in vain. Not a single detective could detect that a pregnant woman would kill their own husband, due to double standards back in the 1950s. No one suspected her due to