Slaughterhouse-Five, written by Kurt Vonnegut, is the story of Billy Pilgrim, a time travelling veteran that gets abducted by aliens and witnesses the Bombing of Dresden. Kurt Vonnegut, throughout the novel, blatantly bends, breaks, and ignores the conventional rules of storytelling. He breaks these conventional rules in an attempt to get a story about Dresden on paper, since he could not do so in any other style.
Kurt Vonnegut openly breaks the typical rules of narration and the delineation of…
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