Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

Words: 397
Pages: 2

Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-five is not meant to be just another anti-war book, yet somehow the story of the main character, Billy Pilgrim, supplied enough social commentary to be considered as one. The use of real historical events and flashbacks to an alien world, where human wars seem pitiful and useless, paint an image of how mentally strenuous wars can be on men when they are forced to fight as babies. Kurt Vonnegut crafted this life with short sentence phrasing, and highly intricate metaphors to completely recreate the troubled life of Billy Pilgrim and to indirectly advise the reader against romanticizing tragedies.
Slaughterhouse-five actually has another title: The Children's Crusade. Repeatedly, this novel returns to the concept