Kurt Vonnegut acquaints us with Paul Lazzaro, who is a prisoner of war fascinated by revenge. Lazzaro tells a story about a dog who tried to bite him. Wanting revenge, Lazzaro puts razor sharp springs into a steak and pretends to be friends with the dog. The dog eats the steak, laced with springs, and eventually, blood started coming from the dog’s insides. Lazzaro later says that the sweetest thing in life is revenge.
I feel like this segment of the book really expresses the novel as a whole. Slaughterhouse Five is meant to be an anti-war book. War often creates grudges and causes people to seek revenge after their enemies. Lazzaro is even heard to be getting revenge on a dog, an animal that many regard as a man’s best friend. I am particularly