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Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1969 satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut, later adapted into a film in 1972. Slaughterhouse-Five, also titled The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death, is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1969, and is generally considered one of Vonnegut's more popular works. Historians consider Slaughterhouse-Five a classic, and its publication made historians and the common people aware of the {w|bombing of Dresden in World War II}}. It combined science fiction, time travel, the bombing of Dresden (and its aftermath), and an uncommon perspective on the analysis of the human condition. Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier named Billy Pilgrim. It is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work. Vonnegut's use of the firebombing of Dresden as a central event makes the novel semi-autobiographical, as he was present during the bombing. Analysis The subtitle "The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death" establishes an anti-war theme. This name's origin is explained in the novel maybe midway through the text: Billy Pilgrim promises a friend's wife to portray tragedy that is war with his novel. The origin of the book's subtitle, as can be found told maybe midway through its text, establishes Slaughterhouse-Five as an anti-war book. In the book war is aptly described as death, and death is another motif Slaughterhouse-Five is a science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut. The novel tells the story of a wayward soldier, Billy Pilgrim, and his experiences with time travel. The novel has had some influence on the storyline of Lost. Slaughterhouse-Five is Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 masterpiece about Billy Pilgrim, a soldier who witnessed the bombing of Dresden and subsequently gets kidnapped by Tralfamadorian aliens, who can see in all four dimensions and thus see all events in their lives in no particular order. Billy becomes Unstuck in Time, marries a nice girl, experiences death for a while, befriends Kilgore Trout (Vonnegut's recurring Author Avatar in The Verse), and lives his life like most other humans -- just less chronologically. Tralfamadorians don't believe you can change anything, but that doesn't mean you can't choose to focus on a particular time, and to enjoy life the way it happens. Billy learns to accept life as well as death -- if something dies, then so it goes.

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Analysis The subtitle "The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death" establishes an anti-war theme. This name's origin is explained in the novel maybe midway through the text: Billy Pilgrim promises a friend's wife to portray tragedy that is war with his novel. The origin of the book's subtitle, as can be found told maybe midway through its text, establishes Slaughterhouse-Five as an anti-war book. In the book war is aptly described as death, and death is another motif Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1969 satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut, later adapted into a film in 1972. Slaughterhouse-Five is a science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut. The novel tells the story of a wayward soldier, Billy Pilgrim, and his experiences with time travel. The novel has had some influence on the storyline of Lost. Slaughterhouse-Five, also titled The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death, is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1969, and is generally considered one of Vonnegut's more popular works. Historians consider Slaughterhouse-Five a classic, and its publication made historians and the common people aware of the {w|bombing of Dresden in World War II}}. It combined science fiction, time travel, the bombing of Dresden (and its aftermath), and an uncommon perspective on the analysis of the human condition. In 2372, Cantabrian counselor Daniel Radke was reading Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five before his Special Operations mission. This is from a scene cut from "Catalyst, Part One" which the author still considers canon. He also recommended Slaughterhouse Five to Noah Wrightson to read. (Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "Isolation") Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier named Billy Pilgrim. It is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work. Vonnegut's use of the firebombing of Dresden as a central event makes the novel semi-autobiographical, as he was present during the bombing. Slaughterhouse-Five is Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 masterpiece about Billy Pilgrim, a soldier who witnessed the bombing of Dresden and subsequently gets kidnapped by Tralfamadorian aliens, who can see in all four dimensions and thus see all events in their lives in no particular order. Billy becomes Unstuck in Time, marries a nice girl, experiences death for a while, befriends Kilgore Trout (Vonnegut's recurring Author Avatar in The Verse), and lives his life like most other humans -- just less chronologically. Tralfamadorians don't believe you can change anything, but that doesn't mean you can't choose to focus on a particular time, and to enjoy life the way it happens. Billy learns to accept life as well as death -- if something dies, then so it goes. Why aliens, and why time travel? Because Vonnegut wanted to write about his experiences in World War II, but he didn't want to write a story about Big Damn Heroes. Instead, his character is simply a meek observer: Billy gets to see the war and the world from a distance, objectively, as if through the eyes of aliens. It caused a bit of controversy when it came out, as people were unwilling to believe that "The Greatest Generation" during "The Good War" could do evil. But his story about the Bombing of Dresden in World War II is factual, as Vonnegut was there. Although there is a question about how many died; it is said that in the book he got the numbers wrong. Still, 135,000 civilians or 25,000 civilians, dead is dead. So it goes. An intensively autobiographical novel (minus the time travel and aliens bits), Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is one of the books Vonnegut is most remembered for and contains philosophies about free will, fate, life, and death, often through the use of irony. For example, scholarly discussion usually holds that Billy and the Tralfamadorians are the examples of what is wrong and that free will, and therefore moral responsibility to try to prevent war, futile though it may seem, are the correct paths. Filmed in 1972 by George Roy Hill. Vonnegut liked it.