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.
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