Jerome Klinkowitz

Describes the background of Slaughterhouse-Five, discusses its themes, and looks at its critical reception

Reforming the Novel and the World

Slaughterhouse-five

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death

Macy HB

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love. 

lulu

Avery

It was his addled understanding of the rules of warfare that the marksman should be given a second chance.

He said that Americans had no choice but to keep fighting in Vietnam until they achieved victory or until the Communists realized that they could not force their way of life on weak countries.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected.

There in the hospital, Billy was having an adventure very common among people without power in time of war: he wahe was trying to prove to a willfully deaf and blind enemy that he was interested to hear and see.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. 

It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. 

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