Symbolism in Slaughterhouse-five

      Symbolism is a major component in understanding the novel. Because of the way Vonnegut writes, its crucial to know what some symbols mean in the deeper meaning. Horses, the tweedy bird, the stars, and specific colors mentioned are extremely important. Also, I noticed that the narrator also sometimes seems like a character in the story. Sometimes, Kurt makes it clear that he himself, speaks of his own experiences at war. This connection shows that the relationship with the novel and its fiction, relates to Vonnegut's personal life. Throughout the book, Kurt places himself as a character in action.
      Next, the horses that we hear about in Dresden are important because the scene where Billy sits in the coffin with the horses attached, is the only time in the novel where it actually mentions that Billy cries. Obviously, the horses don't have a way to understand the war and destruction going on around them, but Billy is like the horses because they both are "innocent victims" of destruction and suffering.
       The tweedy birds in the novel are symbolic as well, because the birds say" pee-too-weet" which doesn't really mean anything. The birds represent the lack of intelligence to say about war. What the birds say, is describing the horror of the bombing.
      The stars in the sky seem like a rather general aspect, but they really do have a big part of the novel, especially because the novel revolves around war. The paper in the novel itself is separated into tiny section of lines of three stars.  The stars are there to create their own scene.
      Lastly, the colors ivory and blue are important in Slaugterhouse-Five, because they represent sadness and loneliness. Billy feels all of these feelings, and this is obvious because throughout the novel it is obvious that Billy is sad because of the war, and the destruction and corruption he is surrounded by constantly.
   

Slaughterhouse-five & war

      The novel itself, revolves around World War II, so automatically, we see that the theme of war is crucial to understand in the story. Not necessarily the World War II itself, but the firebombing of Dresden, definitely shows the "negative war aspects" a reader could saw at the least. With the jump start of the firebombing of the major city/town that the novel takes place in, we know that it will lead us to the other random events of war and destruction that take place throughout. Kurt Vonnegut writes uniquely on how much of an effect war has on Billy''s existence. 
      Billy "day dreams", but really hallucinates about being corrupted and destroyed by war.  For much of the novel, I would read and think to myself, "Is he saying what I think he's saying?", or "Is that about war, or am i thinking to much?". Well, actually I believe i am correct when thinking what i thought could have been wrong. In fact, a good bit of corruptivness is shown very discrete and subtly. An example would be how we don't really notice how different Billy and his son are, until we see Billy walk in on his son and then the two realize they are very distant. This is all cause and effect from Billy being "out of it" from war, and never being stable and steady with his son.
       Overall, corruptivity is swallowing the concept of the novel, because we see here that it obviously changes the way we look and interpret war and its effects. Destruction of War, is a concept shown in Slaughter house-Five, that is not thoroughly explained nor recognized. It must be searched for and then analyzed so that the reader sees the deeper meanings behind it. 

Structure and Plot of Slaughterhouse-five

      Kurt Vonnegut's writing structure in Slaughterhouse-five reminds me of a sophisticated college guy. Even though he makes great points, and is very knowledgeable, if you were to just read his books without noticing what he looked like, a reader wouldn't think that he's a grown man. I think of Vonnegut as one of those perverted, corruptive college guys, who goes to class during the day and makes decent grades, and parties at night with all of his friends. To me, Kurt seems like he has a young but edgy writing style and structure. Also, I feel like his writing doesn't seem to fit his characteristics and physical features. Its almost like Kurt was assigned to write a book in his English class, and spit this out. I would have never thought Kurt was an elder intellectual man, which obviously I was wrong about. I chose to write some about Kurt and his exterior reputation, because I was really shocked when I saw he resembled not a thing of what I thought he would.
      Literally, Kurt Vonnegut writes in a non-traditional way, by depicting Billy's story. He tends to stray away from traditional and typical forms and structure of writing. Vonnegut uses a theme of "time" while incorporating time with the time periods he uses and puts his characters through. An example, would be how Billy keeps reoccurring and going back "in time", while he feels like he is reliving moments from when we fought in World War II. Kurt Vonnegut uses a different type of writing structure where he places the main story of the crisis before the actual event takes place following them.  Even though it is difficult to separate rising from falling action, because we know Dresden is blown up but it really doesn't actually blow up until the end of the novel. The reader could look at this and say that this novel is of mostly rising action. All together, the outline and structure is more like a cause and effect act, and Vonnegut shows these events leading up to one another.