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Slaughterhouse 5: The children’s crusade is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut.

In Slaughterhouse 5 Vonnegut explores many different themes.

Vonnegut explores travel through both time and to another planet through the main character Billy Pilgrim. Billy Pilgrim has experienced many moments of extreme trauma throughout his life and as a result travels to escape further trauma. Through the book we see Billy’s life in a non-linear fashion; we see his life out of sequence. Billy believes he travels through time and to another planet called Tralfamadore though it is up to us to decide whether he really does travel or if it is just his delusions from extreme trauma. Through we read most of Billy’s life as random memories of time travel, his war experiences are all in sequence.

Vonnegut also visits the issue of free will. Through the Tralfamadorians, Billy learns that free will is something that can only be found on Earth with humans. The Tralfamadorians themselves do not believe in free will. The Tralfamadorians believe that if a person cannot change time, either the present, past or future, then they are just free to exist as they are. Without changing anything.

The issue of death is also explored by Vonnegut in his novel Slaughterhouse 5. In the book death is not tragic, nor is it unimportant. The event of death is always followed by the Tralfamadorian saying “so it goes.” Though sometimes seeming like Vonnegut does not take death seriously the phrase actually follows the Tralfamadorian philosophy that a person never really dies, they continue to live in other moments in time.

Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5 is an anti-war book that can sometimes be a bit difficult to follow and understand, though it does have good lessons and morals.