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Slaughterhouse-Five

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December , 8th 2008

SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE BY KURT VONNEGUT

This is a post-modern anti-war science fiction novel that deals with a soldier experiences and his journeys with time travel during the World War II

In summary , Billy pilgrim , a disoriented , ill-trained American soldier who is the chaplain 's assistant is captured in the Battle of the Bulge by the Germans . He is imprisoned in a discussed slaughterhouse in Dresden together with other POWs . The POWs and guards alike are , some of the few

survivors of the firestorm that destroyed the city during the allied air rqids as they hid safely in a deep cellar

Due to unknown reasons , Billy has come `unstuck in time . The extraterrestrial aliens from planet Trafmadore kidnap Billy and exhibit him in 200 with his mate as movies start Montana wildhack . Being that Tralfamadorians can see in four dimensions , have already seen every instant of their theories

Traveling forward and back in times relieves occasion of Billy 's life real and fantastic . His life time is spent in Tralfamadore , Dresdeni and war , walking in deep now post-war married life in USA and in his murder (Johansen , Bruce E , 2002

His death is a consequence to string of events . He meets Roland weary before being captured by the German . Weary 's property is confiscated and clogs given to him to put on . Eventually , gangrene caused by the clogs kills weary . Paul Lazzaro , voros to avenge Weary 's death by killing Billy as...

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