Slaughterhouse Five Term Paper

Open, View, and/or
Download this Document

Total Length: 1217 words ( 4 double-spaced pages)

Total Sources: 0

Page 1 of 4

Interviewer

Good morning Mr. Vonnegut! First of all, I would like to thank you for giving me this wonderful opportunity of having to interview you!

Vonnegut

Good morning to you too! It's actually my honor and pleasure to be interviewed by a popular columnist like you. I hope this will not be the last.

Interviewer

Oh certainly Kurt. I am a very good fan of yours. In fact, I have read a lot of your stories and I find them all very interesting. And speaking of which, such is the reason why I am very eager to have this interview with you -- to talk about your masterpiece, if I must say, the Slaughterhouse-Five.

Vonnegut

Great! Thanks for the compliment! Yes, the Slaughterhouse-Five is among the stories I wrote where I guess I spent so many years before I have the "courage," if that's the right word I must use, to start writing the story. This is because, if you might not know yet, the story is actually based from my experiences at war.

Interviewer

That's what I heard. That's why you and your story really awaken my interest concerning how you relate to it. I do believe that the Slaughterhouse-Five would be hard to write if I were in your shoes. But then, we should celebrate because you successfully surpassed the trials of war. Most importantly, I admire that you are able to use such experiences, bitter as they may have been, to bring out the best in you; as it is obvious that you are successful with the Slaughterhouse-Five.

Vonnegut

Oh ... thank you, thank you. There's nothing we can do anyway but to face what we have today and live our present life.

Interviewer

So, tell me Kurt, for the record, what made you write Slaughterhouse-Five?

Vonnegut

Well, you already know that I have been a witness of war, as I previously mentioned.

Stuck Writing Your "Slaughterhouse Five" Term Paper?

View All Our Example Slaughterhouse Five Term Paper

Have A Custom Example Essay Written

And perhaps, no one would assume that being in the middle of people's and nations' war is a joyful experience ... because it's really, really not; whether you survive from the war, there is always something in that experience that will somehow haunt your memories and your life. And to me, my experiences at war haunted me for years. Until one day, when I woke up, I just realized that I should let go of that bad feeling that used to haunt me. And so, as a way of conquering my fear of my past's memories of war, I started writing the Slaughterhouse-Five.

Interviewer

I see. Though I have not experienced being in a war, I think I do understand your feelings about it. I could only just imagine. And what a good way you used to conquer your fear! It's a method that most psychologists actually recommend. And based on how I see in your aura, I'm sure you are successful using that method. However, while writing the story, did there ever come a time when your fear of your war memories haunted you again? ... Or perhaps because of such fear when you thought that you don't want to finish the story anymore?

Vonnegut

Yes, it did. But lucky for me because it only caused me slight feelings of indifference or fear. No, I did not come to the point of throwing what I had started...I mean the Slaughterhouse-Five. Maybe one reason to this is because I really focused myself on writing the story ... although there is nothing much good that a reader can get from reading a story of massacres, pain, and death.

But focusing on the story helped me a lot because it became an outlet of….....

Show More ⇣

     Open the full completed essay and source list


OR

     Order a one-of-a-kind custom essay on this topic


Related Essays

Thematic Analysis the Things They Carried and Slaughterhouse Five

Destructiveness of War in "The Things They Carried" and "Slaughterhouse Five" Summary “The Things They Carried” is a series of stories in which the narrator Tim O’Brien describes the experience of soldiers in the war. The term denotes the things that the soldiers came with to war. Some of the things are intangible such as fear and guilt while others are physical things such as M-16 rifles, morphine, and matches among others. When Lavender is shot during the war, Lieutenant Cross feels guilty for causing his death (O’Brien 56). However, he destructs himself from guilt by thinking about his… Continue Reading...

sample essay writing service

Cite This Resource:

Latest APA Format (6th edition)

Copy Reference
"Slaughterhouse Five" (2005, October 22) Retrieved June 28, 2025, from
https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essays/slaughterhouse-five-69455

Latest MLA Format (8th edition)

Copy Reference
"Slaughterhouse Five" 22 October 2005. Web.28 June. 2025. <
https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essays/slaughterhouse-five-69455>

Latest Chicago Format (16th edition)

Copy Reference
"Slaughterhouse Five", 22 October 2005, Accessed.28 June. 2025,
https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essays/slaughterhouse-five-69455
   

Open, View, and/or
Download this Document
order custom essay example