"All this happened, more or less": Making Sense of the War Experience Through Humor in "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "The Sirens of Titan"

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Slaughterhouse-Five was published in the heyday of the Vietnam War in 1969 and was thought to be the biggest work of Vonnegut by many critics. It includes all elements that the reader expects of Vonnegut: humor, satire, social criticism and pacifism. This novel is the result of a 23-year struggle by Vonegut and he wrote a book on the explosion of a flame in Dresden, Germany where he witnessed the detention of American prisoners of war in a slaughter slaughterhouse. Perhaps not surprisingly, Vonegut stands out from the experience as an official pacifist.

Through the novels of "Titan's Siren", "Cat's Cradle", and classic "Slaughterhouse Five", Vonnegut's career has been doing a science fiction novel type of performance often for fifty years and forced him to greatness in America. In the writer's classic. His work often deals with tragedy, but they are famous for supporting humanitarianism and even socialist values, and often have strong antiwar and anti - capitalist feelings. It takes advantage of life in small towns, volunteer firefighters and the midwest, especially his hometown of Indianapolis.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is one of the best caricatures in our time. He wrote a stupid behavior about humans and society. His novels "Titan's Siren", "Slaughterhouse No. 5" and "The Cradle of Cats" are considering human error due to faith in false facts such as religion and war. Vonnegut pointed out that many of the things we believe may not apply. He believes that it is true that there are too many people to accept that idea. He wishes his readers to question society and their beliefs not supported by logical reasoning. For example, religion is not based on any scientific premise, and Vonnegut believes that we should wonder why so many people believe it. In "Titan's Alert", "Slaughterhouse No. 5", "Cat's Cradle", Kurt Vonnegut Jr. urged his readers to question the general beliefs and ideas accepted by society. Vonnegut thinks independently to us and tells us to find the truth of the world

Kurt Vonnegut puts his experience and opinion in the text. When he began writing this book, he said: "All this has happened more or less, in any case part of the war is true ... I changed all names" . For meaningless acts, Slaughterhouse-Five allowed Vonnegut to express his emotions about the matter. Through Billy Pilgrim he was able to show his argument. Much of the behavior he thinks pointless is very violent. "They were in the ambush in the hands of the Germans, they were found from behind and shot, now they are dying in the snow, they have nothing to feel, raspberry sorbet Turn the snow to color It explains what happened and how it happened The image is very powerful The reader can imagine the snow slowly stained with blood Therefore, the reader can imagine slowly painful death, the reader will be tempted by ending the sentence "This is the feeling". The image used in the previous sentence is strong enough