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.
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