Slaughter House 5 Persuasive Essay

Dear Mr Kurt Vonnegut, I am writing to you, for a simple a clear proposal. Since I was asked to read your book Slaughterhouse-Five or also known as The Children’s Crusade, in my school I haven’t seen one clear cover of your book, that I could say it identifies the book or introduces the reader to what you’re great novel involves. So I want to propose you, to create a cover in which people will attract and also makes senses with your book. First of all, I need to tell you what I see in actual and previous covers of the book. The 1969 cover, the one of the first edition, it’s not a cover of a book you’re expecting they will talk about world war II or about tralfamadorians; it’s maybe a version in which they were just trying to highlight the door of the slaughterhouse an old fashioned door, where the main character …show more content…
A symbol, that shows the travelling in time or stuck at time of Billy because of the way in which the book is told.
4. And, Billy, the main character (but I will show it as a survivor and disorientated person)
(And we can not forget about normal details of covers: Title of the book, author name and publisher logo) The cover needs to have the tralfamadorians, do to the analogy there’s between them and Billy. As he adopts a Tralfamadorian attitude because it is the only way he can make sense of the disorientation in time he is left with after the war. In order to follow him, the narrative approximates the same attitude as the tralfamadorians and their philosophy of time. A way in which, the travelling can be shown on the cover: it’s putting a serial of dates in different sizes, highlighting the one of the Dresden bombing, so the reader won’t really understand the real meaning of this dates until he reads the book, and understands the main cycle of the story that is not a linear story, it’s a book where the time “travels” it goes to the future, come back but it is stuck in some lapse of time, billy won’t be in a place for a long

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