Slaughterhouse-Five Response
Guide
Satire
– combines a critical attitude with wit and humor to improve society.
Forget the Tralfamadorians. Don’t bother your head considerably about
their conceptions of time. That stuff is
all low-grade science fiction. The heart
of the novel, and what makes Vonnegut an Important Author (I do believe that
people will be studying him in 100 years), is his satire.
On the blogpage, I want to see five different
entries from each of you. They should be
short. Identify a passage. Quote it entirely, or if it’s a little
longer, identify it by page, and by the opening and closing of the
passage. [“I have told my sons. . . machinery like that” p. 19].
Then your response, 25 words or fewer.
Pick quotations that reflect Vonnegut’s view of the human condition.
Of the five entries, three should be of the Quotation-Comment
type. Two should be responses
to other people’s entries. Each will
count for up to five points.
The portal closes: 6:00 p.m., EDT, Sunday, March 30,
2014.
