1) Yes I do believe that this book is more an anti-war story rather than an anti-war book. I think this because he is not making the book for the sole purpose of anti-war movements, but rather telling a story about the atrocities of war and his experience with war.


2) Yes I agree that the phrase so it goes reduces the significance of death in that whenever an atrocity happens "so it goes" makes it seems as if it was just another part of the day.


3) No, I disagree in that I think that we should all have free will and not have things predetermined for ourselves and we should make our own destiny.


4)Yes I agree that there is more evidence that science fiction helped Billy re-invent himself in that he was able to use this to create new ideas without them having to be real.


5) I disagree in that they do serve a purpose other than to inspire Billy Pilgrims stories because they were used for other things.

Passage explication

In this passage, from Chapter 5 of Slaughter House Five, the author explores the comparison of science fiction to the rest of the books theme which is Free will and the destruction of war. In this comparison he uses stories and literary devices such as repetition to explain the importance of free floating ideas, and the horrors of war. At the entrance of the passage, the author is making an attempt at comparing free will to science fiction in that he starts of by saying "Rosewater who introduced Billy to science fiction". The author is trying to set precedence for support of free floating circulating ideas by allowing a out of the ordinary genre of books to be an acceptable form of literature. The author used repetition to prove that war is destructive and horrible. In the middle of the passage, he says "Rosewater, for-instance, shot a fourteen-year-old fireman, mistaking him for a German soldier. So it goes" He used the saying "So it goes" to numb the audience to the horrors of war every time a abhorrent event happens.  

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I think Vonnegut explains the horrors of war in a unique comedic way in that when he is pitching a book idea to one of his friends he explains the climax in a sarcastic yet humorous manner. "The irony is so great. A whole city gets burned down, and thousands and thousands of people are killed. And then this one American foot soldier is arrested in the ruins for taking a teapot." I think he re-sensitizes us to what war really is and how it is not how we see it in the movies.

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In Vonnegut's response to the Drake school board he displays his anger with them and uses different techniques to justify his actions.

In Vonnegut's response to the Drake school board he displays his anger with them in that he uses pathos logos and ethos to do so. For example, in paragraph four of the letter he listed all of his accomplishments throughout his life which is justification and qualification to make statements later in the letter. This gave him qualification in that he was talking about America, and American politics so he is justifying his accusations by putting an emphasis on him being a World War Two veteran.