Critical Article

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Slaughterhouse-Five is Vonnegut's most admired and discussed novel. In the story Vonnegut talks about the most important part of his life. The story was narrated by Vonnegut and in the first chapter Vonnegut only talks about how hard it was to right a book about the massacre he witnessed. Vonnegut makes the structure of the novel very "jumbled and jangled" much like the condition of the main character Billy. Billy's condition in the book is a symbol of confusion and the desire to be able to escape from war. Vonnegut wrote the book as a response to war and many critics have commented on the book's structure, style, and use of satire.