Tuesday, May 10, 2011

KURT VONNEGUT – SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE “1”

This book is the story of Billy Pilgrim who has become “unstuck at past”. Billy Pilgrim is travelling back, goes to his birth, his death, and all the moments in between out of order and repeatedly. The interesting part of the novel is, even though there are lots of events in many years, there is no order about them. It explains them like in small fragments. First ten chapters of the novel, Kurt Vonnegut explains about some difficulties of novel writing and its effects of Dresden in his life.
Billy Pilgrim travels in time, he gets confused and he doesn’t know how to react. I’m sure most of us have experienced those kind of moments. Isn’t that feeling really very weird?
Generally, the novel explains bad sides of the war and its effects by giving examples of Kurt Vonnegut’s experiences in World War 2.

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