Prompt number one

Vonnegut's way of presenting Slaughterhouse V as anti-war is extremely unorthadox, but it is still without question an anti-war novel. It is strange how he presents death as almost a non-issue, yet the only reason war is so strongly opposed is because it grants death en masse. Vonnegut makes us see war at a very different perspective than we normally do, in a simplistic, peaceful manner of writing, the opposite from what we would expect in an anti-war novel, where grim descriptions and focus upon the horror of it all should be prevelant. Billy is even indifference to everything going on around him, stating the one time he cries during the war is when he looks at how bad the horses are treated. He never sheds a tear for the thousands killed above him when he is hiding in the meat locker, and this is Vonnergut stating on the condition of the human spirit and war's effect on it. He is saying that you get to a point where the horrors of war stop effecting you, being just another everyday occerance, but you can still be moved by something as poor treatment to horses. Overall the book is very much anti-war, the way it is presented as such is just very subtle.