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This is the first 1,000 characters of 21831 words (87.32 pages) in the essay titled The slaughter house five Billy Pilgrim, like Kurt Vonnegut, was an American soldier in Europein 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. The same is true for Billy Pilgrim. What he saw and did during his six months on the battlefield and as a prisoner of war have dominated his life. Slaughterhouse-Five shows how Billy comes to terms with the feelings of horror, guilt, and despair that are the result of Billy does this by putting the events of his life in perspective. He reorganizes his life so that all of it occurs within the context of his days in Europe during the war. Thus the novel relates Billy s prewar and postwar history (including his death in 1976, which was many years in the future when Vonnegut was writing this book), but the real story of the novel is the story of Billy s wartime days. All the other events in Billy s life are merely incidental to his time as a soldier and a prisoner of war. You see them as events that come to his mind as he lives, or relives, the last months of the war in Billy reorganizes his life by using the device of time-travel. Unlike everyone else, Billy Pilgrim doesn t live his l... |
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Keywords: slaughter house five, billy pilgrim, kurt vonnegut, slaughterhouse five, american soldier, combat veteran, despair, prisoner of war, novel, europe, unstuck in time, war in vietnam, scars of war, war experience, postwar history, important event, behind enemy lines, drifts