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Kurt Vonnegut Childrens Crusade
1,230 wordsWar plays a significant role in shaping human history. The rire's of war can temper a man until he is unbreakable, or they can melt him with their heat. For Kurt Vonnegut, the flames of war do something extraordinary. They burn away his ability to accept the atrocities that humans direct toward one another. They galvanize his mind, removing any doubt as to the treacherous legacy that comes with the violence of war. Most importantly, they brand into his mind the images and events that would be th...
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Critical Analysis Of Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
1,917 wordsKurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is essentially an anti-war book. The historical context of this book centers around the bombing of Dresden on the nights of Feb. 13 and 14 in 1944 during World War II. Hundreds and thousands were killed at locations like Dresden, which were non-military in nature but served as methods of weakening Axis morale. Vonnegut himself was present at Dresden when it was bombed. This book is his way of releasing emotional turmoil caused by war. Slaughterhouse-Five, much...
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Bombing Of Dresden Feelings Of Guilt
2,172 wordsVonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five When one begins to analyze a military novel it is important to first look at the historical context in which the book was written. On the nights of February 13 - 14 in 1944 the city of Dresden, Germany was subjected to one of the worst air attacks in the history of man. By the end of the bombing 135, 000 to 250, 000 people had been killed by the combined forces of the United States and the United Kingdom. Dresden was different then Berlin or many of the other milit...
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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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World War Ii Bombing Of Dresden
985 wordsExplore the use of " So it goes. " Is it to be viewed as resignation to the horrors of death? Is it Billy's response? Vonnegut's? Yours? ? So it goes? is Billy Pilgrim? s theory regarding death. He is simply saying that death is no big deal. Since he saw so much death in World War II, and witnessed a bombing two times as worse as Hiroshima, he deals with death much differently than others. Because of everything he has gone through, Billy has become numb to death. It has become a regula...
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