Comparison On Both Stories (Week 8, Post 1)

Jennifer Hong
Jan. 15, 2012

Slaughterhouse-Five and The Great Gatsby are both interesting stories. For both books, I got surprised and I totally didn't expect that they would turn out the way they did. I did know a bit about each book before I read them, but I didn't expect many things. For this quarter, I really think the book The Great Gatsby won me over. For many reasons actually. It was fun to read, not confusing, it had a style in writing, the plot was exciting, there were lots of parts to it such as love, affair (pg. 97), mystery, and the characters weren't that boring. Although the Great Gatsby isn't my favorite book since I'm not into these kinds of books that much, I give this book props because even though this isn't my thing, I could read on without getting bored. As for Slaughterhouse-Five, I was interested with it at first, but then got bored. But after a while, I guess it was more interesting. Although a short book, Slaughterhouse-Five was very confusing and it kind of made me feel like there was no point to it. It also had bad grammar (pg. 5), I don't know if it was just my edition/copy of the book, but nothing seemed like it was in the right place. The Great Gatsby had more of an eloquence to it and I felt like intelligence wrote it. In Slaughterhouse-Five, not saying that Kurt Vonnegut isn't smart, but the way he wrote didn't really feel enlightening to me and didn't keep me interested even though a bunch of weird things happened. It did leave me with a lot of questions though. Slaughterhouse-Five was more of a historical book then Gatsby was (pg. 30). It talked and explained about war and stuff.