study
We study for our life.
Economics and social study, are the most important subjects that people should study.
Economics is the mechanism of society.
Society is the wolrd you live. big world circulating with so many lives.
This two subjects can lead people to the new world.
My essay
THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE BY KURT VONNEGUT
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In today’s society, people want something special and unique. Some want something remarkable, some want something ridiculous, and others just want more. As in modern society, people want something special when it comes to reading books. Authors, therefore, try to stand out either in the content of their books or by making their conclusion special; however, the intro of the book is what defines the book as a whole. Intro, a written or spoken explanation at the beginning of a book, is a paramount part in a book. In Kurt Vonnegut’s slaughterhouse-five, the author wrote an exceptional introduction, which is different from other commonly written intros. Vonnegut shows the progress of which he wrote the book and some of the seemingly incomprehensible imagery. Vonnegut’s intro is not just a simple explanation of the book. The “fire-bombing of Dresden,” (P1) one of the terrible disasters in the history, “[All this] happened, more or less.” (P1) After I recognized the book’s topic by interest, I thought it was another atrocious, “blood and tears” (P10) fiction with a reversal; however, the base of intro was noticeably different from other books. Vonnegut’s intro writing was totally different from other writers’. An ordinary writer would use the Intro as an introduction of the book and rarely as an author’s note, but Vonnegut chose his words to be Chapter 1 of his book. Vonnegut wrote about his own experience of the Dresden fire-bombing. He was attended forcibly into Dresden and after the war ended he came back to America and became an author. In his intro, Vonnegut meets his old friend from Dresden and discusses about the fire-bombing. He symbolizes the cruelty of war by referring to it as the “Children’s Crusade.” (P2) Commonly, other writers write intros about their book with aimed purposes such as criticizing the modern society. Vonnegut wrote his autobiography during conceptualizing this book; the concept of “fire-bombing of Dresden.” Furthermore, peculiarly, he displayed the first sentence: “Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time,” (P22) and the last sentence: “Poo-tee-weet?” (P22) Actually, most readers would ignore the author’s note, because they don’t think it is important; however, Vonnegut wrote his own words as an intro of his book so that the readers could be more interested not in the war imagery but in what he really wants to speak to us. Then why should we read his intro? After I read his intro, my concentration rose because my brain had recognized the whole conceptual line of this book. First, he showed us the progress of writing this book. Actually, progress doesn’t give us a route to how to read on. Also he gave us meaningless imageries. Imageries usually symbolize something; however, he just made us to get into the “circle of white.” (p 87) Lastly, he showed us his own dilemma. He wrote that his book Slaughterhouse-5 is a “failure,” (p 13) because there is nothing glamorous or interesting to write about a massacre. Consequently, his intro made us to hold out no little hope for such as display or expression of the war. Then we could understand his message, “War is nothing.” The main character “[Billy Pilgrim] has come unstuck in time,” (P22) and the story line is tangled up. Also the story’s main point is not on “the war,” (P14) itself, but rather on what happens to Billy Pilgrim before and after the war. These points are linked to Vonnegut’s purpose of his book; to de-glamorize the war, unlike any other anti-war novels. Vonnegut didn’t display what war is or how war is nauseating and diabolical. there isn’t a single imagery that depicts the atrocities of war: blood and gore. Nevertheless, Vonnegut expressed the massacre, the “cruelty” (P 19) of war, with a seemingly void serenity. How did Vonnegut show us his point? He did so by inserting his autobiography during conceptualizing this book. Vonnegut talked with his wartime friend, O’Hare, about the “Children’s Crusade”; a secondary title of this book, which symbolizes how young they were when the fire-bombing of Dresden occurred and also of their lack of knowledge about the war because they were too young. This was how his brain firstly recognized the concept of the voidness of war. Then he gained superabundant self-esteem toward his knowledge of Dresden accident. O’Hare’s wife, who was listening to their conversation, was dumbfounded when she heard their opinions about Dresden, because they “were just babies then.” (P 16) She recalls the fact that their experiences were not so profound as what Vonnegut talked about. After the conversation, Vonnegut takes another step in writing his book, but again he comes up with a seeming failure. It was not about how he wrote the book, but just that his subject, the Dresden bombing, was a nonentity, non-definable concept, and Vonnegut had nothing in his brain. Finally, he just displayed his own brain to us with empty consequences. The definition of a successful or a non-successful novel is among the base like the intro. Intro is the made pathway for readers, a compressed storyline and sometimes imply the author’s ultimate purpose. So readers can read i t more understandably and comfortably with preoccupation. Vonnegut’s unique skill hammered his point, “War is nothing,” to our mind so that our comprehension about this book would increase and neglect the tantalizing imagery of war: blood and gore.
References; I used some quotes in this book and also read some analysis in some webpages
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