My Senior Paper, Finally Complete!
Well its nearly 3 in the morning and I'm completely exhausted but its finished. Typed, printed, stapled, and ready to get a big fat D- on, my senior literary analysis is complete. Thank god, because it was a pain. I know seven pages may sound a bit light, but when you have to rewrite basically everything you have previously written to make it sound better, it doesn't seem light then. Well its up if you want to read it. I think the title serves it well. I don't really give two shits about the books which I have read, but they're there anyway. Please read and comment on it, seeing that I spent 7 hours writing it today and nearly an entire day total working on it.
Nothing In This Paper Is True
When a person thinks of any one particular author whose tenacity and vision to change the literary world has resulted to some of the most insightful works of art that have seemingly shed light on what was thought to be a dark generation, Kurt Vonnegut would probably be that author. Within his works, Vonnegut could be considered more of an architect rather than an author due to the wide array of structural techniques and literary tools that he has at his disposal. His unique style of writing has made him one of the premiere authors of his generation. With a variety of ways to explain a situation, Vonnegut uses the literary medium as not only center to tell his comedic, yet dramatic tales of humanity, but also a forum for him to express his opinions on topics, such as war, nuclear arms and warfare, and the impending end of the world, that tend to strike a note with (then current) topics of the time. He is able to achieve this through a multitude of skills, but mainly he uses characters that are easy to relate to as well as his talent as a master-storyteller to captivate the reader; both of which has come as a direct result of his life being centered around the written word.
Born of a middle class family during the Great Depression, the environment in which Vonnegut grew up in plays much into his style of writing as well as his selection of characters for his novels. Even from an early age, Vonnegut took interest in writing; his life experiences only helped fuel his creativity. His experiences as part of the infantry in the United States army during World War II have provided a solid base for what later became Slaughterhouse-Five. In fact, many of the characters in Slaughterhouse-Five are based either on actual people that Vonnegut knew, or, in the case of Elliot Rosewater and Kilgore Trout, characters that have arisen from other Vonnegut novels. Vonnegut felt as if he was obligated to write a novel about the infamous firebombing of Dresden, so he did. He retold the event just as he saw it, but Kurt Vonnegut tells it through the eyes of his main character Billy Pilgrim (Kurt Vonnegut 4).
Billy Pilgrim's life prior to the bombing of Dresden is a sharp and poignant resemblance to the life led Vonnegut until the same time. Critics agree that the novel contains both authentic and fictional rudiments. "One factual element of the novel, then, is that much that to its main character, Billy Pilgrim, as a solider and a P.O.W., really happened to Kurt Vonnegut. He even worked in a factory making malt supplement for pregnant women and was punished for eating some
Nothing In This Paper Is True
When a person thinks of any one particular author whose tenacity and vision to change the literary world has resulted to some of the most insightful works of art that have seemingly shed light on what was thought to be a dark generation, Kurt Vonnegut would probably be that author. Within his works, Vonnegut could be considered more of an architect rather than an author due to the wide array of structural techniques and literary tools that he has at his disposal. His unique style of writing has made him one of the premiere authors of his generation. With a variety of ways to explain a situation, Vonnegut uses the literary medium as not only center to tell his comedic, yet dramatic tales of humanity, but also a forum for him to express his opinions on topics, such as war, nuclear arms and warfare, and the impending end of the world, that tend to strike a note with (then current) topics of the time. He is able to achieve this through a multitude of skills, but mainly he uses characters that are easy to relate to as well as his talent as a master-storyteller to captivate the reader; both of which has come as a direct result of his life being centered around the written word.
Born of a middle class family during the Great Depression, the environment in which Vonnegut grew up in plays much into his style of writing as well as his selection of characters for his novels. Even from an early age, Vonnegut took interest in writing; his life experiences only helped fuel his creativity. His experiences as part of the infantry in the United States army during World War II have provided a solid base for what later became Slaughterhouse-Five. In fact, many of the characters in Slaughterhouse-Five are based either on actual people that Vonnegut knew, or, in the case of Elliot Rosewater and Kilgore Trout, characters that have arisen from other Vonnegut novels. Vonnegut felt as if he was obligated to write a novel about the infamous firebombing of Dresden, so he did. He retold the event just as he saw it, but Kurt Vonnegut tells it through the eyes of his main character Billy Pilgrim (Kurt Vonnegut 4).
Billy Pilgrim's life prior to the bombing of Dresden is a sharp and poignant resemblance to the life led Vonnegut until the same time. Critics agree that the novel contains both authentic and fictional rudiments. "One factual element of the novel, then, is that much that to its main character, Billy Pilgrim, as a solider and a P.O.W., really happened to Kurt Vonnegut. He even worked in a factory making malt supplement for pregnant women and was punished for eating some