Thursday, October 22, 2009
One of America's most humorous, satirical literatures, Slaughterhouse Five demonstrates mankind losing their heads off! A writer investigates the happenings in Dresden: "....the fate of Dresden, where 135,000 people died......an air attack on Tokyo by American heavy bombers, using incendiary and high explosive bombs, caused the death of 83,793 people. The atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 71,379 people" (188). Not only the Germans themselves, but also the Americans pulverized many lives for "the greater good." Vonnegut ridicules efforts, motives, and purposes of war. He displays the inhuman filthy environment many soldiers have dealt through. Billy Pilgrim becomes the big screen of the disparities of war. After the airplane crash, Billy loses his mind and possibly the interpretations of his experiences! Alien! A hot 20 year old celebrity! A meet with a crazy baffoon writer! His head becomes a mind juggling facts from fiction!
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This book was absolutely funny! I love it. But Billy traveling back in time brought the mood slightly down for me. I kind of wished for slaughtering and gore and more depth in what actually happened in Dresden.
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