Slaughterhouse - Five: Satire About War And Life
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Slaughterhouse - Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, is a novel about the
senselessness of war, told through protagonist, Billy Pilgrim.
Slaughterhouse - Five is a satire, which is a work that makes fun of
something serious. In this case it is war. The plot of this novel is very
scattered, and skips around ....
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.... else’s coat was from a dead soldier with brass buttons, numbers
and stars. Billy’s was the only one from a civilian, not only a civilian
but a woman. “The coat that Billy Pilgrim got had been crumpled and frozen
in such a way, and was so small, that it appeared to be not a coat but a
sort of large black, three-cornered hat. There were gummy stains on it,
too, like crankcase drainings or old strawberry jam. There seemed to be a
dead, furry animal frozen to it. The animal was ....
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