Slaughterhouse Five

Part I of Essay
Kurt Vonnegut as an author has defied the normal norms of storytelling and has been very successful at it. The use of fragmentation in has been a weapon he has used to good effect. It starts of as being confusing and chaotic but as it goes on you come to terms with it unde ....

Part II of Essay
.... , the very hellhole in which he toiled for his captors. The former is no doubt less autobiographical, but the main character certainly has many things in common with his creator: an American artist within Nazi Germany, doing what he felt was necessary to stay alive and to further his work. The author himself tells us he had to write this book. His subtitle “A Duty-Dance with Death” also takes on a personal aspect. Vonnegut had to reconcile himself with the war, the death, and its impact on him. Tools and Context (war) Through th ....