Why Slaughterhouse Five Should Be Banned

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There should be no reason to ban Slaughterhouse five from high school seniors. The book does include violence, valgur language, comments on homosexualtity, filled with profanity and full of explicit sexual reference, makes references to religious matters but we as adults understand and learned what people went through when they were in war. Slaughterhouse five author Kurt Vonnegut shared experience of the main character in the book Billy Pilgrim who was “unstuck in time”. The author explained the experience of Billy Pilgrim during War in details and depth. The author used the phrase “so it goes” in the book 106 times throughout the novel. The author meant by this phrase that no one in the war can do anything to ignore the situation. In war there is no help. That's the way how Wars was. This phrase also teaches us the students that we should move on in life because time does not wait for anyone. The …show more content…

He comments on racism that it is easier to just ignore racism because everyone is equal. We as a high school seniors know about racism and the author makes it more clearly that we should ignore racism. This novel is a science fiction, also it switches the tone from first person to third or third person to first. On page 23 the author Kurt Vonnegut shift from first person to third person voice and On page 67 the author shifts from third person to first person because it makes the novel more real. This novel is not only about war this book is about how to write and how to make the novel more realistic. This novel is great example for people who wants to write books. This novel is a fine piece of literature and it should not be banned. Please read the book once before making any decisions about banning Slaughterhouse five. Thank you very much for reading this letter and we will wait for your

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