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In seven pages this 1968 novel by Kurt Vonnegut is examined from an historical perspective. Six sources are cited in the bibliogr...

000 souls. Partnering with Opposites Throughout the novel there are many "partnerings" with opposites. If an image repeats itsel...

that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...

to become an optometrist. He falls in love with the daughter of the schools owner, Valencia. However, he soon has a break down bec...

of nearly every day of his childhood" (38). The fact that the crucifix depicts a dead Jesus is significant because it represents ...

which has a definable beginning, a middle, and an end" (Forrest). Not only that, but the initial scene of the book sets reveals ...

In four pages this essay discusses the themes related to this novel by Kurt Vonnegut including human beings and how they handle wa...

everything leads back to itself without ever answering anything. The story, and the life of Billy, is nothing more than an endless...

"alienation has especially come to signify the difficult relation between the individual and his sense of difference and distance ...

cyberworld just ahead of the concern which began to take place in the real world. Unlike many of his predecessors who liked to pre...

a sense of belief and stability. However, one is never really sure if the priest is really that devoted due to the general nature ...

him otherwise it would seem as he is tossed from one time period to another, from one culture to another, even being abducted by a...

one critic notes it does not matter if many are killed or one very close personal individual was killed, the truth was that "so it...

bombs on the city that they created a firestorm-a self-perpetuating inferno that destroyed the city almost complete. The worst par...

In 5 pages literary satire through history is examined in a discussion of Lysistrata by Aristophanes, As You Like It by William Sh...

In four pages this paper contrast and compares how war is depicted in Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vo...

The writer wonders what Scarlet O'Hara and Billy Pilgrim would talk about if they could travel in time and meet one another. The w...

shelters to get corpses out "as a sanitary measure," is how he puts it (Hayman et al). Even more gruesome was his description of t...

the painter to paint the picture (time of production), the time required to look at and understand the work (time of consumption) ...

bursts" (Vonnegut, 1961). George, her husband, was brilliant and as such represented a threat to the status quo and so he was forc...

was a POW in WWII and went through the firebombing of Dresden (an experience that plays out in his books repeatedly) (Priest). Wi...

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the sociological aspects of Kurt Vonnegut's science fiction novel. Two sources are cited in...

outrage and sorrow. However, Vonneguts protagonist, Howard Campbell, is not precisely a victim in the Holocaust at all. He stress...

In a paper consisting of 7 pages these texts are compared in terms of their egalitarian philosophies and considers whether or not ...

and technological know-how. Because the production lines were very efficient and cranked out high-quality goods on a regular and p...

Kurt Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron" Study Questions vonnegut.htm). The answer to this question would be yes because, when we imagine...

agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...

pull their heads in (Vonnegut 15). He is so entirely wrapped up in himself that he is easily distracted and sees no real reason wh...

In fifteen pages this paper examines this novel by Kurt Vonnegut from a sociological perspective. Five sources are cited in the b...

This 5 page paper argues that Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and Lord of the Files by William Golding are examples of apocalyptic w...