https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883 Author en-us 2017-04-24 14:11:35 UTC 2023-03-16 12:11:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png ishak19468 https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/167840551 2017-04-24 14:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/167840551 ishak19468 https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/167840886 Slaughter House 5
Player Piano
The Sirens of Titan
Mother Night
Cat's Cradle
Breakfast of Champions
And more!!]]> 2017-04-24 14:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/167840886 ishak19468 https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/167842112 He is thought to be funny and very direct. Many are grateful to him for discussing war stories and they find him very imaginative and progressive.]]> 2017-04-24 14:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/167842112 susannahs19617 https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/167944494 In Vonnegut’s book “Slaughterhouse Five” he jumps between his character Billy's different life experiences and time periods. Vonnegut talks about how Billy was living his life while writing the book as a optometrist and writer, and then he would jump to flashbacks from world War II. ]]> 2017-04-24 19:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/167944494 susannahs19617 https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/168093861 -Vonnegut was inspired to write in his distinctive and abstract writing style while attending Cornell University, as well as studying as an anthropologist.
-He had many older siblings who were very intelligent, and from them he learned to tell stories around the dinner table.
-When writing Slaughterhouse Five Vonnegut got ideas from actual places such as the slaughterhouse in Dresden.]]> 2017-04-25 13:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/168093861 susannahs19617 https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/168094228 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut
https://www.quora.com/What-were-Kurt-Vonneguts-literary-influences
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kurt-Vonnegut

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He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and died in New York, New York


]]> 2017-04-25 13:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/168099266 ishak19468 https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/168099567 1967- Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts
1973- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Representation
2009- Audie Award for Short Stories/Collections]]> 2017-04-25 13:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/168099567 avah19918 https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/168101729 - Vonnegut grew up in Indianapolis
- Father was Architect, became unemployed during depression
- Wrote for newspaper in Highschool
- Went to Cornell University 1940-1942
- Enlisted in Air Force in 1943
- Was a survivor of Dresden Bombing]]> 2017-04-25 13:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/168101729 ishak19468 https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/168104001 2017-04-25 13:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/168104001 avah19918 https://padlet.com/ishak19468/paut6rhtn883/wish/168105637 - After war came back and studied at University of Chicago studying anthropology and working as a reporter
- Was employed as a public relations writer but soon became a full-time fiction writer
- Masters in anthropology
- In 1963 the University of Chicago granted Vonnegut a master’s degree in anthropology after he submitted Cat’s Cradle as a thesis
- 1980's struggled with mental illness
- Soon later writes many books and plays

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