Question #1

Slaughterhouse Five or The Children’s Crusade is one of the greatest “anti-war” novels of all time. It doesn’t have a hero, or a villain. The book doesn’t make war look glamorous or worth while. There is never any anticipation in the book, because you Vonnegut tells you everything that’s going to happen before hand. This is completely opposite from most war novels. Those books always want to keep you waiting in suspense for who will die or who will kill someone, or who will live. The book has no chronological structure. He tells you about the death of a person, and then doesn’t touch back on their life for chapters at a time. He is simply illustrating his belief that time is non-existent. It also make the reader see someone in the same sense the Tradaformalians see them, in death, at birth, at their moments of glory, and at their worst. They see everything at once. Vonnegut changes subject often. He goes from an anti-war novel to a science fiction novel, and back. He also changes though very often. He wrote in the same sense that someone thinks; completely random, and out of order.