https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg Background to the novel en-us 2017-10-05 04:13:42 UTC 2023-02-16 15:38:34 UTC hello@padlet.com levi_bollinger https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194147156 Take a quick look around the net and see if you can find anything useful about Slaughterhouse V or its author, Kurt Vonnegut.

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2. Make a thoughtful generalization. Follow the following prompt:

TO ME, VONNEGUT (or SLAUGHTERHOUSE V) SEEMS TO BE ____________.  I THINK THIS BECAUSE....

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To me, Vonnegut seems to be unpredictable.  I think this because he looks a little crazy with his fluffy hair and deep stare.  But he also seems to be striking an intellectual pose -- as if he wants to show that he thinks deeply, but that he also makes it a point to look like he doesn't conform to expectations.




]]> 2017-10-05 04:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194147865 levi_bollinger https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194148160 2017-10-05 04:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194148160 https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151194 To me, Vonnegut seems to be mentally deranged. I think this because his biography gives light about his life, where he experienced many hardships from the war and his family's deaths and bankruptcy. His fatherly figure in his professional appearances and his books seem to be a facade, as his life is miserable according to his biographer. He has a bad relationship with his wife and family, and has bad temper. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/03/kurt-vonnegut-biography ]]> 2017-10-05 04:49:37 UTC https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151194 https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151197 I think Slaughterhouse V will be comedic but also violent and sadistic. Human suffering may be portrayed in a more comical way. I think this because the back of the book says that Vonnegut is known for his black humor in his previous works. That is why I think he will also implement that type of humor in Slaughterhouse Five
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/black-humor]]> 2017-10-05 04:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151197 https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151203 To me, Vonnegut seems to be complex, almost like Robert Frost. I think this because of the release of "And So It Goes" by literary critic Charles Shields five years ago. The book talks about Vonnegut's dark side and complex relationships with his family, and how that contrasts with reader's perception of Vonnegut as a warm, grandfatherly figure. However, Vonnegut did have a complex upbringing -- his mother committed suicide, his sister died of breast cancer, and he was a prisoner of war during the Dresden bombings. The question is, to what extent is Vonnegut's upbringings apparent in his work?]]> 2017-10-05 04:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151203 https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151223 To me, Vonnegut seems to be a optimist. He has been through several unpleasant experiences yet he takes the time to joke about them in his books. His humanist ideals prioritizes the sanctity of human life, yet or exactly because of it, his works often involve lots of deaths. Vonnegut mixes the absurd with social commentary, making some messages difficult to take away from or absurdly straightforward and impossible to misunderstand.
https://www.biography.com/people/kurt-vonnegut-9520329]]> 2017-10-05 04:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151223 https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151246 To me, Vonnegut seems to be very self-conflicted. I think this because despite the great success that he has had academically and as an author, the depression and tragedies that he has suffered from seems to overwhelm and get the best of him. He witnessed the deaths of his family members, including his mother, his sister and his brother in law. His family, that was once wealthy, was overtaken economically by the Great Depression. The experiences that he had surviving the Dresden bombing was not celebratory, but rather gruesome as he had to live life as a POW, collecting and burning corpses, locked in a chamber making vitamin supplements and more. He even tried to take his own life.
https://www.biography.com/people/kurt-vonnegut-9520329
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/03/kurt-vonnegut-biography]]> 2017-10-05 04:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151246 https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151247 Kurt Vonnegut's history implies that he seems to be a very troubled man. His wealthy family becomes poor in a brief period of time because of the Depression, and they all die of horrifying causes.  His experience in war also seems to be the reason why Slaughterhouse Five has themes of violence.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/dec/03/kurt-vonnegut-biography]]> 2017-10-05 04:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151247 https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151351 To me, Slaughterhouse 5 seems to be comedic, and, in some ways, absurd. I think this because I just watched a trailer for a slaughterhouse 5 movie (yes, I checked that it is the same slaughterhouse 5) and the soundtracks the use are the opposite of what you imagine an intense war movie to have. The soundtrack generates a very light tone, which is out of place in a movie about a war, and because of that creates an irony which then appears humorous. With the assumption of a close-to-accurate adaptation of the book, I think that this light, humorous tone is what the Vonnegut is trying to create with slaughterhouse 5. In addition, I also think that the story may be absurd because the trailer shows scenes taking place in both war times and post war times (looks like the 1970-80s). Skipping between different time frames are not only confusing, but can also create a comedic effect due to the simple fact that one cannot jump back and forth in time in real life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvlZtlBfCi0]]> 2017-10-05 04:50:57 UTC https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151351 https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151477 To me, Slaughterhouse V seems to be a psychological disturbance towards the main character. I think this because the plot of the story was a smart man named Billy Pilgrim who was captured by the Germans and had seen countless horrific incidents. Because of this incident, it caused him to lose his mind and had to go to a mental hospital where he gets brain electrocution. As his life seems to go in place, another incident happened to him as aliens kidnapped him to mate with an actress from earth. Because of this incident, when he comes back to earth, he has visions of the future and knows when he would die and how. All these experiences that Billy Pilgrim had to face seemed so unreal that caused him to go mental. Even with these incidences, Billy Pilgrim was always given a normal life such as having a family. However, even if he had a normal life, the abnormalities will still chase after him in the end.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/slaughter/summary.html]]> 2017-10-05 04:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151477 https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151572 To me, Kurt Vonnegut seems to be psychologically conflicted. I think this because he was captured by the Germans during World War II and witnessed deaths of his family members, but still wrote a novel about the sadistic violence that recounts the firebombing of Dresden, with his black humour.
http://www.nytimes.com/1969/03/31/books/vonnegut-slaughterhouse.html]]> 2017-10-05 04:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194151572 https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194152008 Slaughterhouse Five is violent enough to be very controversial in America. There are discussions about banning the book in school curriculum because it is "anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and just plain filthy." The sex, violence, foul language, and religion seem to be the most offensive aspects of the book. ]]> 2017-10-05 04:57:07 UTC https://padlet.com/levi_bollinger/87dh00ef20wg/wish/194152008