Theme Of Slaughterhouse Five

Kurt Vonnegut’s slaughterhouse five is an anti war novel and a very different perspective about the way to look at war and life. Kurt Vonnegut pushes our mind to really think deeply on the meaning of life and what life has to offer. Billy Pilgrim is Kurt’s main character and Vonnegut's themes throughout the book are the essence of time, the craziness of war, and what your meaning really is in this messed up world. The novel is also talking about free will and that you make your own choices and have consequences for your actions or rewards for your good doing. One of the main themes from Kurt Vonnegut's book Slaughterhouse five he uses the phrase “so it goes' ' throughout the whole book. So it goes as a way of accepting that life is short

Vonnegut uses Billy to show us the senselessness of war and how careless our government is sending the lives of United state citizens into war even if they didn't want to. Billy Pilgrim is a World War II veteran who has become what is known as “unstuck in time”. Kurt uses both themes of science fiction and sarcasm and also has a well thought out story. Vonnegut who served in world war 2 has war experience and he knows up front how horrible war is and how much pain and sadness it brings to this world and others. Throughout the book Kurt uses the novel to critique war and show the ups and downs and how the soldiers are being degraded and are just extra bodies that the U.S will give up in war. The book is set during the firebombing of Dresden which is a horrific event that killed up to 25,000 people. Through Billy Pilgrim, the main character in this book, he shows how brutal war is, and how brutal the war camps were when you got captured. Kurt in a way is trying to tell us that there are alot more horrors to war then ups. We need to find the importance of peace, the importance of just putting down the gun and talking it out. “ and even if the wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death”. (Vonnegut