Postmodern literature is a body of works that were published during the 20th century. It became popular in the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s. It was introduced primarily after World War II. Postmodernism is a form of literature which is relied on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, metafiction, etc. Kurt Vonnegut especially was one of the many authors who used multiple narrative techniques in his writing piece to try to show the reality of war in his novel Slaughterhouse Five. Postmodern works often consist of different genres such as television, cartoons, and music. The movement neither embraces nor resists the convention. Postmodernists believed there was a variety of perspectives, none of which is…show more content… Vonnegut sheds light on the realities of way and shares his personal feelings on it. Slaughterhouse Five is Vonnegut’s best known writing piece. The characteristics for the book is just as memorable. Vonnegut’s dark humor, the criticism of war, religion, etc is presented throughout the novel as an easy read and give an effortless understanding of what he is trying to reflect upon. Slaughterhouse Five is the story of main character, Billy Pilgrim. Billy is essentially described as a man who has become unstuck in time, meaning he travels back and forth revisiting his life memories such as birth and death; all of these events are not in chronological order as well. Billy was sent to Europe in the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken and when he was captured, he starting becoming unstuck in time. He, and other American POWs, were moved to Dresden. On February 13th, 1945, Dresden was bombed and over one hundred thousand civilians died, to his own surprise, himself and several other Americans survived in what was called a “meat locker.” The bombing was named the greatest man-caused massacre of all times. The Americans and Billy himself were told by surviving authorities to clear up the
