Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut died of this cause in 2007.
What is slipping and falling?
Vonnegut uses this literary device in “He had helped to fire one shot in anger… it killed everyone on the gun crew but Weary” (34-35).
What is Irony?
The major event occurred at the time “Slaughterhouse Five” was being published.
What is The Vietnam War?
This is what contained wishes for world peace and the words "if the accident will".
He's from Wisconsin.
Who is Yon Yonson?
Vonnegut survived the Dresden firebombing accidentally by being in this morbid building.
What is the Slaughterhouse?
Vonnegut alludes to which Biblical story before deciding that he was “certainly not going to do it [look back] anymore” (22).
What is Lot and his wife (Sodom and Gomorrah)?
The year Kurt Vonnegut published Slaughterhouse Five.
What is 1969?
This is one of Vonnegut's jobs after the war.
What is student, police reporter, or public relations?
Vonnegut promised her his book would be named the Children's Crusade.
Who is Mary O'Hare?
This was where Vonnegut first met his wife.
What is elementary school?
Vonnegut uses this literary device in describing his “breath like mustard gas and roses” (4).
What is simile/imagery?
This reggae singer emerged during the 60s, allowing people to relax and “be happy” through his, and other’s, music.
Who is Bob Marley?
This is the battle that caused Billy to be left behind enemy lines.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
He died by firing squad after stealing a teapot.
Who is Edgar Derby?
Vonnegut adopted this family member’s children after their death.
What is his sister?
Vonnegut uses this literary device in “He had every piece of equipment he had been issued… and so on” (40-41).
What is asyndeton?
The major American value expressed as “significantly lacking” in WWII and the 60s, in Slaughterhouse Five.
What is loyalty or brotherhood?
These are the topics of the limerick and song Vonnegut includes in the first chapter.
What is a young man from Stamboul and Yon Yonson?
The character from which “if the accident will” originated.
Who is Gerhard Muller?