Chapter 1: Overall Thoughts

While reading the beginning of this story, I could not stop thinking about the peculiarity of the subjects he described with such feeling. He seems like a writer who is attempting to draw several different emotions from his readers. It reminds me of modern poetry. He is using emotion to envelop the readers into the world of Slaughterhouse Five. Like modern poets, Vonnegut is using the emotions of the reader to develop their understanding of the story. He uses sadness in the first couple pages, and then he combines it with humor in the following pages. I am looking forward to reading deeper into the book, as well as discovering where Vonnegut will take the story.