Part one of term paper
Slaughterhouse - Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, is a novel about the senselessness of war, told through protagonist, Billy Pilgrim. Slaughterhouse - Five is a satire, which is a work that makes fun of something serious. In this case it is war. The plot of this novel is very scattered, and skips around a great deal. It goes from Billy’s experi ...

Part two of term paper
... war is senseless. In every section of the novel that is about World War II, there is satire there to set the mood. One example of satirizing events experienced in WWII was after Billy was captured by the Germans. He was thrown on a boxcar of a train and all the Americans captured were given a coat to wear. Everyone else’s coat was from a dead soldier with brass buttons, numbers and stars. Billy’s was the only one from a civilian, not only a civilian but a woman. “The coat that Billy Pilgr ...