Slaughterhouse Five

Slaughterhouse Five focuses on the human dignity and advancement of machinery in wars. The protagonist is Billy Pilgrim and the author depicts him as funny looking guy. Moreover, the whole novel is concentrated in Billy's life and adventures in different periods. The first part of the novel tells about the Billy's involvement in Battle of the Bulge in Belgium where he was taken as prisoner from German soldiers. He is transferred in city of Dresden specifically in one prisoner camp. There he finds English officers that were captured from the Germans. The author tries to specify the fact that machinery of Germans was more advanced in comparison with Allied Forces.  After that, the story goes in different direction. For instance, Billy is kidnapped by the aliens or so called Tralfamadorians. They take him at Tralfamadorian planet and mate him with actress Montana Wildhack. Another interesting part is when Billy survives in a plan crash by which he gets brain injuries and is operated in one hospital in Vermont.  In the end, Billy Pilgrim predicts that he will die after an huge bombing by Chinese. 

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut is writer and novelist born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is considered as one of the most influential American writers of the twentieth century. The literature that he cultivated consists of both science fiction and humor. He created a unique model of writing in which he made novels with the unusual characters particularly the alien race called Tralfamadorians in Slaughterhouse-Five. Other remarkable works are Breakfast of Champions , Jailbird, and Deadeye Dick. Although he face many problems during his life, Vonnegut never leaved his unusual writing style which magnified the world literature. He devoted his life to the literature thus he became an icon of global literature. Vonnegut died on April 11, 2007, at the age of 84 as a result of a fall at his house in New York.

The Unknown Citizen - W.H. Auden

The Unknown Citizen is a brilliant poem written by W.H.Auden. The concept of the poem is related with a political situation in which he emphasizes the representatives of political leaders of the state. In essence, the main idea of this poem is that it is dedicated to a citizen and the monument that the state representatives are erecting for him. This citizen is not special person or has special attitudes,however, the state decide to honor him because of being normal. In other words, it is symbolization of the strong commitment or servility to the state directives.

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a
 saint,
For in everything he did he served the Greater Community

That is, Auden use this as instrument to criticize the whole society of that time. Additionally, he makes appeal toward the society to raise awareness and to stop many irregularities of that time. The author illustrates the situation and hard times that labor experienced in that particular period.  In the end, Audin's real message was to show the difficulties of an average person in the his or her life.