Jennifer Hong
Dec. 1, 2011
This book and the book, The Great Gatsby, has a significant difference in themes. The Great Gatsby, as I have mentioned earlier, has a theme of romance, affairs, mysteries, and history. Slaughterhouse-Five has themes of time-travel (clearly), aliens and extraterrestrial beings, sci-fi, history, war, and partially maturing and difference in life after years. Time travel happens so very often in this book. One minute Billy is getting married to Valencia and they make love, the next he's in his zoo cage in Tralfamadore meeting his mating partner Montana Wildhack (pg. 62-63). Which leads us to another theme which is aliens. Tralfamadorians seem to know much about human beings and even claim their to be 5 sexes instead of just two (pg. 57). What shows war is when Billy was in war. What si sad is that he was in a mental ward for veterans after war (pg. 50). What shows maturity is all this time travel Billy does. All the time periods he moves into shows him at a different stage in his life. It goes from good, to great, to bad, to horrible, to great, to weird, to aliens, to confusing, to being in war, to being in a mental ward. All of this shows the differences and how much Billy had matured and changed throughout the years and the major events of his life. I imagine his life to be, as I've said before, very exhausting. But I'd like to add that also probably exciting in a way. Another thing I'd like to point out is that this section of reading really does show why the book was maybe banned; because of sexuality. It talks about how Billy and his spouse made love after their wedding, slightly in detail (pg. 57-58). I was also thinking that maybe Billy is just a crazy man making all of this up, or maybe Kurt Vonnegut is. This book is extremely confusing and does not seem realistic. I'm not sure if the book will have a happy ending or sad ending. What do you think, Jordan?
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