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Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five

Then the unfortunate happened , or Kurt Vonnegut 's dark comedy made it happen , she died of carbon monoxide poisoning inside her car The author had constructed the scene as if the death of Valencia didn 't invoke sad emotion at all . Again , I believe that the function of this is to show what is happening in reality . We don 't need statistics to prove that there are countless wives out there who are left by their unfaithful husbands . But then , this dark humor could also be targeted to those who have eating and

weight issues . The author may have wanted to show that most overweight bring the problem upon themselves because just like Valencia , they can 't stop eating . This could be the author 's answer to why are there such a number of miserable people in this planet . It is because we cause our own problems

The last dark scene that I have chosen is when the prisoners of war were assigned to the dreadful task of digging up the graves for a lot of dead bodies after the town of Dresden was bombed . It was such an awful sight that one of those who were digging the graves threw up from the bad smell . He threw up so bad that he died . Again , there is no word that can perfectly describe the scene than dark comedy . The author had beautifully used the elements of dark humor , wit and irony . It is such an irony that the `dead ' is in a sense free from the toils of being alive and stuck in a war . That scene also shows that people can be pushed to do even the things that they won 't imagine themselves doing Anyone will succumb when there is a gun pointed to you and your loved...

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