Category: Book Slaughterhouse Five
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Slaughterhouse-Five Summary
In the very beginning of the story, the author explains his fractured and surrealistic style of writing by following Tralfamadorian literature tradition. Tralfamador is a planet populated by aliens who, as he claims, abducted him and taught him their way of thinking. Author (now not as a character but as himself, who definitely wasn’t abducted…
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Slaughterhouse-Five Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
It is so short and jumbled and jangled because there is nothing intelligent to say after a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead…everything is supposed to be very quiet…and it always is, except for the birds. Slaughterhouse-Five 27 All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist…It’s just an illusion here…
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Slaughterhouse-Five Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase
Jesus–if Kilgore Trout could only write!” Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout’s unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good. Slaughterhouse-Five 6 Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is. Slaughterhouse-Five 6 God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot…
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Slaughterhouse-Five Essays
Free Will versus Predetermination: Finding the Middle Way From a very early age, people are told that they have free will. This means that they have the complete freedom to make their own choices. The idea of free will empowers human beings because it makes them believe that they can be anyone they choose to…