Kurt Vonnegut’s Experience of Time Travel, War, and Death in Slaughterh

Slaughterhouse-Five is a stirring science-fiction book, which contains many interesting themes such as, position and time travel, philosophy on death, war, and aliens. In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, The main character, billy Pilgrim, is not in the first chapter. The author of this book, Kurt Vonnegut is the main character in this chapter (Harris). This book is written in a rather random govern because Billy Pilgrim lived his life that way. In the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, the authors resource helps him get through reality by giving him the illusion that he is traveling through time and cannot die (Westbrook). Billy was a prisoner-of-war, except he continues with his normal life he also believes that he was electric shaver napped by aliens called Talfamadores (Peebles). These so called trips occur all through his life. He continues his life after serving in World War II by the occupation of optometry. He becomes rather wealthy but eventually dies. Giannone explains that the re are three themes in Slaughterhouse-Five, which include, victory wins over death, the base of no death, and the readers thoughts on the events of the book (Giannone). Billy Pilgrim has gained the competency to become unstuck in time. Billy went to sleep one wickedness as an old man, and has woken up the next day as a driven young engaged man (Vonnegut 23). He has no confine over where he is going to stop next in his lifetime, these trips are rather frightening (Vonnegut 23). In Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy thinks he is able to unravel the present and time travel, but really, he is going back in time and seeing the bombings and other experiences (Vees-Gulani). In this novel, time is not chronological order, the time lapsed in this novel is very large, the time is make up of sma... ...Vol. 152. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 17 Jan. 2014.Shear, Walter. Kurt Vonnegut The Comic Fate of the Sensibility. The Feeling of universe Sensibility in Postwar American Fiction. New Yor k Peter Lang, 2002. 215-239. Rpt. in coeval Literary Criticism. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 212. Detroit Gale, 2006. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 17 Jan. 2014.Vees-Gulani, Susanne. Diagnosing Billy Pilgrim a psychiatric approach to Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five. CRITIQUE Studies in Contemporary Fiction 44.2 (2003) clxxv+. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 17 Jan. 2014.Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five. New York, New York Dell Publishing, 1991. Print.Westbrook, Perry D. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Overview. Contemporary Novelists. Susan Windisch Brown. 6th ed. New York St. James Press, 1996. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 17 Jan. 2014.