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Theme In Ayn Rand's Slaughterhouse-Five

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Theme The amount of theme is heavily stated through the book Slaughterhouse 5. One of the very first themes is the presents of the Tralfamadorians stating that time is senseless. For they live in forth dimension and se time at the same time compared to humans that can only see it in a straight time line. Time to them is like the Rocky Mountains for they see time at all angels. They even know how the universe will end, but they do nothing for it won’t affect anyone because you just go back to a different part of your life. The second theme is the birds going poo-tee-wet. It makes no sense for a bird to say poo-tee-wet and the same thing can be said for war. Slaughterhouse 5 is an anti war book so it makes sense to understand the

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