Writing Assignment In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

Introduction They say that history is written by winners, whereas World War II is the best example of how history is shaped to favor its winners. Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse-Five unfolded the other side of war that history usually neglects. Most of us had a chance to learn about WWII in our history classes, from John Wayne movies or from historical books. Whereas what distinguishes Slaughterhouse-Five from what we used to read about war its Vonnegut’s representation of real experiences that he had actually lived while he was a soldier, prisoner and survivor of WWII.

In high school, I hated writing essays for my English classes. At first, I did not have a reliable writing process. I would free write a rough draft and turn it in as a final draft. I would also write last minute instead of using the time to create a well-thought essay. I focused more on passing a class rather than boosting my writing skills.

In the first and second paragraph I used

Moreover, the evidence that he had in hand was incomplete, leaving him stuck in times. Yet, he managed to turn it into a novel based on history by drawing hypothesis from the incomplete evidence. He significantly drew hypothesis from two distinct sources, one from common senses and one from references. When he provided a piece of history that limited his path to continue his novel, he started to question the evidence and answered the question himself from his own common sense. For instance, Demos brought up a question “ Had John exploited his position (as host) to lord it over the visitors?”

I did not fully understand how to write conclusions with fluency until junior year. To this day, I still have issues with producing effective conclusions for any piece of writing that I need to

Some of the changes I have made on a paper that I wrote for Enc. 1102 that Dr. Dorbad has recommended that I make to improve my writing. In one of our first assignments that Dr. Dorbad had given us was to write, was a letter to an author about his essay that he had wrote. The author was Mr. Lars Eighner and his essay is My Daily Dives in the Dumpster. Some of the suggestions that I was given were to properly cite the author when I am quoting him/her, I had wrote “I prefer the term scavenging and use the word scourging when I mean to be obscure”.

Markus Zusak got to put himself in the shoes of his parents while listening to their childhood stories that influenced him to write some of the parts that took place in his novel. Zusak’s story was very much inspired by the stories he grew up hearing from his parents. The Book Thief was written at an angle that people rarely see, that of ordinary German people living under the Nazi regime (Interview with Markus Zusak, Author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger). Having a mother that was German and a father that was Austrian, those stories played a big role in his writing. Zusak exclaimed in one of his interviews: One of my mum’s stories was about something that happened when she was six.

I start off well with the introduction then by the third paragraph my mind is blank. Funny thing is I have a lot of ideas that I could type but just can’t express them when it’s time to write.

Although I was not expecting a good grade, I still wondered what I had done wrong. The paper had one mark on it that was it, but I was too shy to ask what I did wrong. The same thing happened again on the next essay we wrote weeks later. I was just about ready to give up on the class, not like I actually could quit it but I was not very motivated about it.

This is because Levi wanted the audience to fully understand what it feels like to be in a concentration camp and through reading the novel, experience themselves the struggles that the prisoners went through. Levi’s description of the concentration camp is so vivid and thus is jolting to the reader since Auschwitz is a real place you can visit today “The stories he will tell of the Lager challenge this claim of freedom. He labels the camp differently writing, “This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this.” (22) “ Extremely Loud Foer created a fictional account to showcase the aftermath of a tragedy while Levi used

She stated in her paper that for many students the idea of revision makes them uncomfortable and can lead to them not spending very much time working on it. She found that the students were never taught how to truly revise their essays (Sommers 380-382). After reading and

In the novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” written by Kurt Vonnegut, he tells a story through the lens of a young boy who was enlisted in the army while pursuing optometry school and how throughout his life he then began to experience moments in his life where he would timehop from dimensions between his past and his future. During one of these instances, he was kidnapped by these aliens called “Tralfamadorians”, and taken hostage where a significant topic was discussed concerning the idea of free will. Free will is the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate or the ability to act at one's own discretion, and Vonnegut makes it apparent that the notion of free will is a societal norm that we have fabricated as humans throughout time.     During this encounter

During World War Two, the firebombing of Dresden, Germany, lasted two days, and killed 135,000 people. Billy Pilgrim survives this tragedy, and lives to tell the tale. In the novel Slaughter-house Five, Kurt Vonnegut utilizes the worst firebombing in war history to illustrate how violence can take a dramatic toll on someone that is irreversible and life-changing, often to the point of mental illness. Vonnegut writes that it is “a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet tralfamadore.”

The question of fate touches nearly everything humans care about. Every day, people associate events to fate because of the belief that they cannot help what happens to them. In Slaughterhouse-five, writer Kurt Vonnegut argues that humankind is the slave of predestination. A person who believes that they are to do something is not really choosing at all: the choice is already made. For this reason, Vonnegut crafts the main character, Billy, to live in Tralfamadorian time as a way to prove that fate is totally predetermined--not only as a coping mechanism for Billy’s own PTSD, but also as an antidote for the sorrows and grief caused by WWII.

The historical, science fiction novel Slaughterhouse-Five written by Kurt Vonnegut follows a man named Billy Pilgrim, who has become “unstuck in time” spending one moment in a year and then blinking only to find himself in another (Vonnegut, 29). However, the book consistently centers on Billy’s life in World War Two, as he witnesses one of the most considerable massacres in the history of Europe: “the fire-bombing of Dresden”, which killed nearly 135,000 people (Vonnegut, 128). Even though the story appears to lack a beginning, middle, and end, it does not. Billy’s life itself does not follow a consistent timeline within the novel; however his life during World War Two does happen chronologically, even though it is broken up by different time