A Pilgrim in a Strange Land: "Slaughter-House Five" abstract
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 05:33:06
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 4 pages (1108 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 4 pages (1108 words)
The horrors of war have plagued mankind since the beginning of written history. In "Slaughterhouse Five", Kurt Vonnegut tries to convey the true essence of war and how it can disrupt very fabric of human existence. Vonnegut's protagonist Billy Pilgrim is the vessel through which he portrays the journey from the brink of death to the realization of something beyond human understanding. Billy's apathy for life stems from his realization of the extent to which …
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…amp;gt;<Tab/><Tab/>Works Cited:
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five. New York: Dell Publishing, 1969.
Tanner, Tony. "The Uncertain Messenger (Kurt Vonnegut. Jr.)," in City of Words: American Fiction 1950-1970. New York: Harper & Row, 1971: 181-201.
Wymer, Thomas L. "The Swiftian Satire of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr." in Voices for the Future: Essays on Major Science Fiction Writers. Ed. Thomas D. Clareson. Bowling Green, OH: BGU Popular Press, 1976, 238-62
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