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Li Kang
English Reading
11 November 2016
Absurdity and Forlornnessin Slaughterhouse-Five
Content summary:Slaughterhouse-Fivetellsthestories of Billy
Pilgrim, a 1945, the Germans transport the prisoners to
Dresden to work in laborin V-E
Day in May 1945, Billy witnessed the biggest slaughter of Europe. With
one thousand years history and culture of the ancient city of Dresden was
allied bombing, the whole city was reduced to ashes, killing hundreds of
thousand people. By prisoner exchange Billy finally has chance to go
back to the United States after the war, re-enter the optometry school to
learn optometry and get rich. Although Billyfinally survived, after
struggled in transit, Billy got a little his daughter's wedding
night, in Billy’s mind, he is captured by an alien space ship and taken to a
planet light-years away from Earth called is exhibited
in a zoo with a movie star named Montana Wild Hack, who had
disappeared and was believed to have drowned herself in the Pacific
Ocean, and finally make a family with Billy.
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Author use this person, Billy, who suffered from schizophrenia,
actually want to describe the cruelty and unnecessity of war by his
experience and his science fiction about beautiful life.
Key word:Soitdoes, absurdity and forlornness, dark humor
Main body:
Afterreadingoverlaughterhouse-Five, I foundthat Thewhole book
give me some kind feelings of forlorn and some kinds of absurd. Maybe
just like the writerKurt Vonnegut, JR. mention at the beginning of the
novel’s main body:”It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because
there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.” War is such thing,
begin at the absurd reason, and end with everything in forlornness.
The most impressive but absurd thing in the novel is the word “So it
does.”So it does. We may only use it at the end of our letters
If we said beginning of the novel can let a person have a clue, the
end is really get rid of
“The wagon was green and coffin- shaped.
Birds were talking.
One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, 'Poo-tee-weet?'”
Absurdity, this word not only go through the content of the novel,
but also the structure. We may use this kind of writing only in primary
school or when we want to write some fairy tales to tell at a little girl’s
’s such a said to be he reason is that Kurt Vonnegut’s
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