Slaughter House Five
Beginning of paper
It seems as though all we hear on the news lately is bad news. So it goes, right? After all, if we took to heart all the tragedies that occur everyday in the world we'd never get out of bed in the morning. We would have an overload of grief so heavy that we'd probably all die of a broken heart. ....
Middle of paper
.... at once, or do we sit back and watch things fall apart? Kurt Vonnegut has an interesting idea of what to do, as is shown in his novel, . Vonnegut's prescription for dealing with the tragic absurdity of the twentieth century is to simply not deal with it.
In his novel, Vonnegut shows that he is more inclined to sit back and watch than to let things effect him. Being an anti-war novel, his book is filled with shocking events and gruesome deaths. But Vonnegut portrays death as something trivia ....
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Word count: 923
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
