Kurt Vonnegut's Purpose
"Slaughterhouse Five is Vonnegut’s tribute to the strain imposed on his conscience by the fact that he survived, and by his increasing awareness, since the war, of the scope and variety of death."
-The New Yorker |
Kurt Vonnegut uses an abundance of literary devices and stylistic decisions to portray the dehumanizing and destructive repercussions of war on individuals.
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"Slaughterhouse Five is a novel suffused with historical and temporal anxiety, which alludes to the far deeper existential uncertainty, guilt, and paranoia that haunts both Kurt Vonnegut and the postwar American consciousness."
-The Vonnegut Review |
"My God--what have they done to you, lad?
This isn't a man. It's a broke kite."
- Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut, 124)
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