Man’s Inhumanity Lost souls, that is what we all are. Some are able to find their way while others still wander. That is what gets to all of us, just some more than others. We tend to take worldly goods for granted, we get caught up in our own lives or trapped in the web of another. People stick to beliefs and do not ponder on whether or not it is right or wrong. Man is extremely messed up or inhumane and there is nothing to do about it. We just move on and try to fix what we feel can be fixed. Kurt Vonnegut’s low opinion of humans in general are displayed in his works Breakfast of Champions and Slaughterhouse Five show that man’s inhumanity to man can be avoided by conscious thoughts and deeds. Kurt Vonnegut lived an extremely successful life as an author, novelist and short story writer. Critics did understand that Vonnegut was an underground writer who experienced many of the realities during World War II being that he was a participant. Kurt found that writing gave him a way to let out the truth and make it his own way of both escaping and depicting the harsh realities of life. His literary career seemed to have began after he went to war. …show more content…
Kurt Vonnegut was in Dresden when the destruction of Dresden was going on. He was lucky enough to have made it out. It gave him the opportunity to write Slaughterhouse Five, the story that revolves around experiences from being in Dresden. His writing represented more than just an escape, it was as if a portal to see his past. Although it was his way out to tell the truths of war and the inhumanity that walks among us, he made it his own. “ Vonnegut often returns to the theme of social inequality and to a quote from Eugene Debs (1855- 1926) … ‘ while there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.’ ” ( Jerome Klinkowitz, Kurt Vonnegut’s America) He suffered as a prisoner and prevailed as a