"Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut . The effects of war

        To me, Slaughterho riding habit Five is a novel written to place the horror of struggle. This is shown by

the means of the protagonist- he-goat Pilgrim. , truncheons phsychic journeys symbolize the maimed

soul in learn of relief from the horrors of modern life (Harris, last 2 lines). I pass away to disagree

with one part of this statement. I think that Billys journeys symbolize the wounded soul

in need of relief from the horrors of war.

        I disagree with Mrs. Harris, because when I evince the story, when I saw how miserable Billy

was with his life (wife, job, etc.) it still didnt fool me feel that this was the reason for Billys

phsychic journeys. As I read on, I became positive that the reason for Billys journeys was

definitly the Dresden bombard as it was quoted: Billys response to the final solution (Dresden) is to

escape into an imaginary kidnaping at the hands of the Tralfamadorians......This existential

determinnism enables Billy to endure the harm of Dresden and to live with the threat of

apocalypse; it also makes him an ethical basket case... (Magill, 2729)

        The Tralfamadorian episodes that Billy goes through are, in my opinion ways that the

author conveys his anti-war message.



Vonnegut uses the Tralfamadorians to show how war is

useless, and he uses them to insinuate that war is part of the human nature. This insinuate is proven

by one of the Tralfamadorians directly saying that humans will tump over to war for the slightest things,

and they are a warlike people.

        Again, we can use the Tralfamadorian escapes as a way to convey the message of the

author-- we see, from the bombing of Dresden, that in the eyes of the author (whose feelings are

channeled through Billy) war is pointless. Billy thinks to himself Why would such...

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