Slaughter house five

The book Slaughterhouse Five by: Kurt Vonnegut is an anti-war book that has taken place during the years of 1945-1968 in the United States, but the book was originally published in 1969. Through the use of various themes Kurt Vonnegut explores the positive and negative impacts they have on humanity (values/morals/ethics). The exploration on themes also allows for the positive/negative values and morals of people become apparent. The books setting takes place around the timing of 1944–1945 concerns Billy’s army service in Germany and briefly in Luxembourg, where he is captured after the Battle of the Bulge. Most of the rest of Billy’s life takes place in Ilium, New York. He also travels to the planet Tralfamadore and lives there in a zoo. The time frame the novel sets is during the detailed account of Billy’s war experiences in 1944–1945, but it skips around his entire life, from his early childhood in the 1920s to his death in 1976. The author’s narration is set in 1968. The tone that is set by the author which in this case is also the narrator, so the narrator’s tone is familiar and ironic, and he uncovers touches of dark humour and absurdity that do not diminish the lyrical and emotional power of the material. His portrayal of Billy is intimate but hesitant, and he occasionally emphasizes the diction of reported speech (prefacing a passage with “He says that” or “Billy says”) to draw a distinction between reality and Billy’s interpretation of events. Some of the conflicts that arose in the books were that’s Billy had no sense of life as it is today and then to later emphasize a different reality like no other to separate his mind and thoughts on his own point of view of his life and others. One of the problems that arose to him ...

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In conclusion the book Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Through the use of various themes Kurt Vonnegut explores the positive and negative impacts they have on humanity (values/morals/ethics). The exploration on themes also allows for the positive/negative values and morals of people become apparent. Which can be contributed through the aspect of exploration, the positive and negative influence, negative values and morals, theme free will, liberty and imprisonment, and males and manliness? The aspect of exploration in the sense of time travel to explore what is happening in life, the aspect of positive and negative influences that it had on Billy life which is a parallel to Vonnegut life. It also develops the man and manliness of if you join the war or not. This is how the exploration of the themes of positive and negatives comes in place.