As is a similar story, of Camp Heartwell. Both being about German labor camp prisoners. Chaplain's Assistant Billy Pilgrim is a disoriented, fatalistic, and ill-trained American soldier who refuses to fight. He does not like war and is captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. When captured, the Germans confiscate everything Weary has, including his boots, giving him hinged, wooden clogs to wear.
Billy is taken with the other P.O.W’s to an abandoned slaughterhouse in Dresden. This is an ironic place to imprison the POW’s as it provides shelter from the American air-raids and when they emerge, they find they are among the few
In the basement, the man and boy find naked people who are being kept alive for others to eat. The man and boy flee just as the road agents return. They hide in the woods through the freezing night, the man feeling certain that this is the day when he's going to have to kill his son. But they survive the night and go undiscovered.
During an Allie raid destroying Dresden, he survived by “hiding in an underground meat locker labeled ‘slaughterhouse-five’ along with other Allied prisoners of war.” This experience provided the inspiration for his premier novel. Vonnegut was freed by Soviet soldiers and received the Purple Heart upon his return to the United States. He traveled to the University of Chicago in pursuit of his master’s degree in anthropology. Vonnegut’s career as an author inaugurated with the publishing of "Report on the Barnhouse Effect," a short story featured in Collier’s magazine in 1950. During the commencement of his career as a novelist, Vonnegut found it hard to live in one spot, as moved throughout the country.
Hans and Rosa began to hide a Jewish man, Max Vandenburg, in their basement until Hans made a mistake that forced Max to leave before the authorities came and found him. Alex Steiner, Rudy’s father, also made a mistake that threatened the authority of the Nazi party and he and Hans were drafted into the military. Hans broke his leg and was allowed to come back home to Molching. Late one night, while Liesel was in their basement writing an autobiography, the poorer part of Molching was bombed, where she happened to live and everyone was killed, except Liesel. First of all, the book provided me with many, somewhat random out of context, but interesting facts about what went on outside of the fictional story of Liesel Meminger.
In the book “Frankenstein” By Mary Shelley and the movie “Frankenstein” made in the 1940’s, have some similarities and also some differences. In the book “Frankenstein” Victor’s brother dies and Justine is accused of his murder. In the movie the creature kills a young man and leaves runs out and his fiancé also dies running to ask for help leaving the creature to blame for. Also the book explains the way the creature feels about life, sitting by the fire in his hut, the monster tells Victor of the confusion that he experienced upon being created. He also describes his flight from Victor's apartment into the wilderness and him adapting to the world through his discovery of the sensations of light, dark, hunger, thirst, and cold.
It’s Worth a Couple Tears In Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut presents death as common and unimportant in order to satirize death. Vonnegut uses the phrase “so it goes” after every death in the novel regardless of the circumstances. Billy Pilgrim’s ability to time travel allows him to brush off deaths as if they have no importance. Billy is abducted by aliens called Tramalfadorians who have a very different view on time as humans do. They believe all moments have already taken place, and they cannot be changed.
Billy and Ronald Weary are captured by German soldiers, while the other two soldiers were shot trying to flee the scene. Just before Billy’s capture, he experiences his first time travel through his life. Billy is now able to time travel through his life, but he is unable to control when he time travels or where he goes. Being able to time travel allows Billy to mature and learn major lessons about life. This creates probably the strongest theme and symbol: being optimistic and “Fourth-Dimension.” While time traveling, one frequent settings of the book is Billy’s life on Tralfamadoria.
Vonnegut reflects upon his experiences in WWI through the creation of multiple worlds or “realities” to present different perspectives to his readers. On the alien world of Trafalmadore, in describing to its inhabitants the nature of humanity and its engagement in senseless slaughter, Pilgrim tells them “I myself have seen the bodies of schoolgirls who were boiled alive in a water tower by my own countrymen”. To an alien race who can see how the universe ends, this seems insignificant, but to us, the readers, we are appalled by the atrocities fellow humans have had to suffer, and witness. By placing this event on an alien planet, Vonnegut puts the events of war into context. To someone who witnessed these atrocities, it seems like a big deal.
John Marsden shows the theme of leadership all throughout the book. When they came back from hell, a little clearing below quite a bit of bush in tailors stitch, they arrive at Ellie’s house only to find that her pets are dead and there is no one around. They find a fax at her house from her dad, he thought that something was going wrong at the showgrounds, and that’s when they concluded that they had been invaded. When it was dark, Ellie,