Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse five is not only a book of the chilling details of war, but also a book of the facts of war, the side effects of life, and the consequences of dealing with all of that at the same time. Vonnegut writes in cycles and intertwined timelines to show his reader how trapped one can become in his own life, even just in his mind. Billy pilgrim is an average veteran, keepsake from battle and all, except a diamond ring is not the only “prize” he got from is time at war. Through Billy Pilgrim’s
Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close share several similar traits. These commonalities reside in the authors’ specific use of character in relation or reaction to setting, and in their eschewing of the linear narrative form. Both writers employ main characters who struggle against the mental fall-out of having experienced catastrophic events – with the World War Two-era firebombing of