Sunday, May 8, 2011

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. 

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