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Billy Pilgrim Kilgore Trout
813 wordsKurt Vonnegut - Plays the role of himself in the first chapter, as he tries to get a grip on the Dresden book he feels the need to write. Appears occasionally in Billy Pilgrim's story as a reminder that he was indeed there. Also appears again at the end, when he returns to Dresden as a tourist. Billy Pilgrim - Pacifistic, wimpy, and passive-natured main character in Vonnegut's Dresden story. Generally seen as a pilgrim in his own haunted past, from which he returns with a message of goodness for...
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Begins To Question Kilgore Trout
647 wordsBREAKFAST OF CHAMPONS- KURT VONNEGUT In Brandon Boyd s Make Yourself he states that if [he] hadn t assembled [himself] that [he] would ve fallen apart, implying that if one does not take the time to understand and build his or her own values and morals that one will live in confusion and falter. Throughout Vonnegut s Breakfast of Champions, Kilgore Trout goes through the process of realizing who he is and then learns to remain true to himself. At first Trout is a pessimist who strives to be hear...
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Kilgore Trout Billy Pilgrim
701 wordsKurt Vonnegut? s character Billy Pilgrim, in Slaughterhouse-Five, is an American soldier in Europe in the last year of World War II. What he sees and does during his six months on the battlefield and as a prisoner of war have dominated his life. He comes to terms with the feelings of horror, guilt, and despair that are the result of his war experiences by putting the events of his life in perspective. He reorganizes his life by using the device of time travel. Unlike everyone else, he does not l...
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World War Ii Kilgore Trout
8,561 wordsTHE NOVEL THE PLOT Billy Pilgrim, like Kurt Vonnegut, was an American soldier in Europe in the last year of World War II. If you come to know a combat veteran well- a veteran of that war, of the Korean War, or of the war in Vietnam- you will almost always find that his war experience was the single most important event in his life. The sights and scars of war remain with the soldier for the rest of his days, and his memories of death and killing help to shape whatever future career he may make. ...
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr Third Person Omniscient
2,622 wordsThe connection between genius and madness is a well-known one in modern culture, almost to the point that it is considered a clich. Such a label does not affect its accuracy in the case of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. His literature is world-famous, and Vonnegut has been awarded numerous awards. However, Vonnegut s narrative style and the characters of his novels reflect the symptoms of serious mental illness, especially schizophrenia. While Vonnegut s works can be read partly as social criticisms, many p...
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Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut Kurt
1,433 wordsKurt Vonnegut has written more then twenty books in the years he has been writing. Many of his books share characters, settings, or situations. Using the same characters and such creates a unity throughout his books. Likewise, Vonnegut seems to repeat themes throughout many of his books. A number of Vonnegut s books deal with themes that include structure and order in society. Kurt Vonnegut discusses mankind s need for structure and order by the creation of meaningless associations in his novels...
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