Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Date Submitted: 10/14/2003 03:20:04
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 6 pages (1598 words)
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 6 pages (1598 words)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., was born on the eleventh day of November 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was the grandson of the first licensed architect in Indiana, and the son of a wealthy architect. The Great Depression, however, left Vonnegut's father out of work and the wealth of the family soon diminished. It was at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis that Vonnegut gained his first writing experience. During his last two years there he wrote for and …
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…is "And so it goes", Repeated whenever a character dies. This shows how Billy copes with everything that happens around him: he accepts everything. Acceptance plays a very big role in the book. Billy forgives everyone for doing things to him and he never gets angry. But acceptance has its bad part, when Billy drives through the black ghetto ignoring the suffering there. This shows that acceptance is good, but only to a certain degree.
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