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Essay Archive - Slaughterhouse - Five: Satire About War and Life
Slaughterhouse - Five: Satire About War and Life
Slaughterhouse - Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, is a novel about the
senselessness of war, told through protagonist, Billy Pilgrim.
Slaughterhouse - Five is a satire, which is a work that makes fun of
something serious. In this case it is war. The plot of this novel is very
scattered, and skips around a great deal. It goes from Billy’s experience
of World war II as a soldier and POW, to Tralfamadore, the alien planet to
which Billy was abducted, to the present day, where Billy is a successful
optometrist, as well as a husband and father. Throughout the novel,....
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