Slaughter House Five

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century is to simply not deal with it.
In his novel, Vonnegut shows that he is more inclined to sit back and watch than to let things effect him. Being an anti-war novel, his book is filled with shocking events and gruesome deaths. But Vonnegut portrays death as something trivial. Every time someone dies or something bad happens where the reader might think "oh my gosh, that's awful!" Vonnegut says, "so it goes." It's as if he saying that that kind of thing happens all the time and since no one can stop it we shouldn't get all worked up about it. But he goes to the extent to make the reader think he doesn't care. When he reacts this way up to four times in one page, it's like he's suggesting we glaze over the horrible moments as if they never really happened.
Vonnegut's main character, Billy Pilgrim, has learned how to glaze over bad times like this. He has become, as he says, "unstuck in time," meaning his life is no longer in chronological order. It has become, to him, ...

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