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What does Kilgore Trout believe is the message of the crucifixion story in the gospels?
He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low. But the Gospels actually taught this: Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected. So it goes.
What does Kilgore Trout represent?
Kilgore Trout claims that there really are vampires and werewolves, heaven and hell, but we just can’t see them… since they’re in the fourth dimension.
What does Kilgore Trout represent in Slaughterhouse Five?
As was the case in GodBless You, Mr. Rosewater, then, the presence of Trout in Slaughterhouse-Five indicates Vonnegut’s preoccupation with the role of the author in society. As he himself explains: “I agree with Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini that the writer should serve his society.
Who is Kilgore Trout based on?
Kilgore Trout is the pseudonym of (the equally fictional) Dr. Robert Fender, whose doctorate is in veterinary science. While in prison, Fender also writes many science fiction novels under another pseudonym, Frank X. Barlow, and works as the chief clerk in the supply room of the prison.
What does Trout’s story about robots say about the bombing of Dresden?
What does Trout’s story about robots say about the bombing of Dresden? Humans are fundamentally okay with causing human suffering, but that they are petty and shallow, hating physical ailments.
Who was Kilgore?
The character of science fiction author Kilgore Trout who debuts in Kurt Vonnegut’s opus, “God Bless You Mr. Rosewater” was actually based on friend and fellow author Theodore Sturgeon. The two became friends when Sturgeon moved to Turo, Massachusetts.
What does Roland weary represent?
Instead of dying as the noble war hero he imagined himself to be, Weary remains a deluded coward who resents anyone who comes between himself and his glorified fantasies of war.
What is Trout’s novel The gutless wonder about?
In Trout’s The Gutless Wonder, a novel about a robot in future human society, there was a bombing on people; the bombing “was dropped on them from airplanes. Robots did the dropping. They had no conscience and no circuits which would allow them to imagine what was happening to the people on the ground” (Vonnegut 168).
What are some symbols in Slaughterhouse-Five?
Slaughterhouse-Five Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
- The Horses. After the bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim and several POWs return to the slaughterhouse to pick up souvenirs.
- The Stars.
- Prayer and Montana Wildhack’s Locket.
- “Mustard Gas and Roses,” “Nestled Like Spoons,” and “Blue and Ivory”
What is the significance of the Tralfamadorians?
The Tralfamadorians’ perspective illustrates the ambiguity of life: The universe exists as a random and senseless place. At the same time, despite feeling powerless, complacency doesn’t sit well with humans. The human struggle to control the uncontrollable rages on no matter how much the higher beings pity them.
What do the Tralfamadorians do to Billy?
But most important, the Tralfamadorians, like the Germans, totally remove Billy’s choices: they take him captive and there is nothing Billy can do about it. He is forced to live (he believes) in a geodesic dome on Tralfamadore… just as he is forced to live in a slaughterhouse in Dresden.
What does Billy learn from the Tralfamadorians?
As he begins his stay with the Tralfamadorians, Billy learns about their concept of time and their philosophy of acceptance. If there is no free will, and if each moment is structured so that it can only occur the way it occurs, then it makes sense to accept things as they come.
What is the irony in Slaughterhouse-Five?
An overarching irony in Slaughterhouse-Five is that death does not discriminate. We already know that Billy will survive war and a plane crash, despite the fact that he is ill suited to a life of danger and hardship.
What did Kurt Vonnegut smoke?
Vonnegut — who died Wednesday night at the age of 84 from injuries suffered in a fall — had the Tralfamadorian attitude. “I’ve been smoking Pall Mall unfiltered cigarettes since I was 12 or 14,” he told Rolling Stone last year. “So I’m going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, who manufactured them.
What was the main ingredient of the candles and soap used at the welcoming dinner for the American POWS?
What was the main ingredient of the candles and soap used at the welcoming dinner for the American POWS? the “fat of rendered Jews and Gypsies and fairies and communists, and other enemies of the State.“
What is the significance of the bird cry poo tee weet?
The Bird Who Says “Poo-tee-weet?” The jabbering bird symbolizes the lack of anything intelligent to say about war. Birdsong rings out alone in the silence after a massacre, and “Poo-tee-weet?” seems about as appropriate a thing to say as any, since no words can really describe the horror of the Dresden firebombing.
What is the significance of the phrase so it goes?
‘” Jordyn “So it goes” means life goes on. As the author states it the book, it is in fact an anti war book and interpret the use of the satirical motif to represent how war has taken something such as death, which is so drastic and made it so meaningless.
What does the ending of Slaughterhouse-Five mean?
By sticking to his promise and ending the novel with this phrase, Vonnegut indicates that he feels there is nothing else to say about the Dresden bombing and the utter devastation of war. Because of Billy’s time-travel and the non-linear aspects of Slaughterhouse-Five.
Do you smell that napalm son?
You smell that? Lance : What? Kilgore : Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that.
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