Slaughterhouse-Five Essay: Three Themes of Slaughterhouse-Five

The Three Themes of Slaughterhouse- volt   Kurt Vonnegut did a great job in constitution an irresistible empathiseing legend in which nonpareil is not permitted to laugh, and yet still be a sad book without tears. Slaughterhouse-five was copyrighted in 1969 and is a book active the 1945 firebombing in Dresden which had killed 135,000 people. The main character is billy goat Pilgrim, a very youthful infantry scout who is captured in the Battle of the Bulge and quartered to a slaughter where he and other soldiers are held. The rest of the novel is more or less nightstick and his encounters with the contend, his wife, his life on earth, and on the planet Tralfamador.   There are 3 themes in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, that stick in the readers mind as they read through this novel. Perhaps the most obvious theme in Slaughterhouse-Five, is the war and its contrast with love, beauty, humanity, innocence, etc. Vonnegut manages to tell the reader in Slaughterhouse-Five , that war is meritless for human kind and that it would be better for people to love one another. To find the wars contrast with love is quite difficult, because the book doesnt talk about any couple that was cruelly torn apart by the war. For example, Billy didnt seem to love his wife very much. Vonnegut expresses it very lightly and uses the intelligence information love very rarely. Yet when he does, he uses it effectively. He tries to manifestation for love and beauty in things that seemingly are neither amiable nor beautiful. For example, when Billy was captured by the group of Germans, he didnt see them as a cruel enemy, but as normal, innocent people   Billy looked up at the face that went with the clogs. It was the face of a blond angel, of a fifteen-year-old son. The boy was as beautiful as Eve (... ...e eyes of Tralfamadorians When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad originator in the particular moment, but that the sa me person is just graceful in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is So it goes, (Vonnegut, p.27).   so far with the contrast and the differences between these three themes, Vonnegut makes them all mesh in this novel. If Slaughterhouse- Five was the first novel the reader has ever read, they would appreciate this style of writing and black humor that Vonnegut portrays throughout Slaughterhouse- Five. It would make the reader wish that they would fuck off discovered him earlier and read his books long before now. Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Slaughterhouse-five. NewYork dell Publishing Co. 1969.