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Slaughterhouse Five - Coggle Diagram
Slaughterhouse Five
Themes
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War and Death:
war causes emotional, physical, and psychological damage to many characters like Billy Pilgrim, Bernard O’ Harry, Paul Lazzaro as well as the writer
Dresden bombing, kills almost 100,000 Germans; turns Dresden into the "moon"
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Characters
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Rumfoord
childish, wishes to return to younger days
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represents the limitations of human perception and understanding (foil to the more sympathetic and open-minded Tralfamadorians)
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Edgar Derby
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executed for stealing a teapot at the close of the war ( senseless loss of life that occurs during war)
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value individual freedom and dignity, even in the face of larger forces that seek to control and manipulate our lives
Derby took initiative - took initiative (actively considered morally right and wrong) → became a real person or a character
Motifs
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tralfamordian view of time: past, present, future interconnected
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barbershop quartet
Billy seeing through the “time window”
triggers a cascade of connections between Billy’s past in the war, his violent life afterward, and his investigations of time under the influence of the Tralfamadorians
four men will sing on the plane that, in crashing, nearly kills Billy
resembles the four German soldiers standing together, along with the 100 US POWs, in the slaughterhouse during the bombing