In Slaughterhouse-five, Kurt Vonnegut expresses the idea of Postmodernism through black humor, irony, and metafiction by using elements relate to war in order to resemble his response regarding to the idea of anti-war. When Billy travels back to Lions Club meeting, the speaker of the meeting is in “favor of increasing bombings”, in order to turn North Vietnam back to the “stone age” (76). The sense of black humor and the idea of increasing bombing to turn North Vietnam back to stone age demonstrates counter culture, because Americans are scared of the advance technologies due to the effect it had on previous battles. The speaker is in favor of increasing bombing, but the fact that the North Vietnam will eventually turn into the stone age made