I have decided instead of trying to do multiple blogs for Slaughterhouse Five (Since I am so close to my # anyway) I was going to play with as much of the methods as I could:) I am so interested in what is going on in the book. It flips through time and confuses time. Reading it I have underlined major passages to be referenced and come back to for my own time travel book. (which is currently on a back shelf!)
Billy crashes in and out of time. The challenge is - does the juxtaposition matter? When I read it I separate out in my mind the last thing Vonnegut wrote and go back to the time before when Billy was the age he is now in the story.
It occurred to me that even now half way through to attempt a controlling value seems impossible. Perhaps because I can not get a good handle on the time.
Billy crashes in and out of time. The challenge is - does the juxtaposition matter? When I read it I separate out in my mind the last thing Vonnegut wrote and go back to the time before when Billy was the age he is now in the story.
It occurred to me that even now half way through to attempt a controlling value seems impossible. Perhaps because I can not get a good handle on the time.
Inter textuAL lANDMINE
Intertextual references are peppered all over Slaughterhouse Five. Vonnegut both references other's work and his own work.
Vonnegut is Referencing Adam and Eve to be representative of the Bible story and the motif of Innocence/ innocence lost.
The Serenity prayer (commonly used in 12 step programs) is used
God grant me
the serenity To accept
the things I cannot change;
Courage
to change the things I can;
And wisdom always
to tell the
difference.
The Valley of the Dolls is referenced as the only english book the Tralfamadorian's own. This was a book about young women who take pills. Of the book Billy remarks it has a lot of Ups and downs.
The Serenity prayer (commonly used in 12 step programs) is used
God grant me
the serenity To accept
the things I cannot change;
Courage
to change the things I can;
And wisdom always
to tell the
difference.
The Valley of the Dolls is referenced as the only english book the Tralfamadorian's own. This was a book about young women who take pills. Of the book Billy remarks it has a lot of Ups and downs.
Vonnegut uses his own textual intertext- Characters appear in several of his works:
Howard W. Campbell Jr., - An American turned spy
Kilgore Trout
Howard W. Campbell Jr., - An American turned spy
Kilgore Trout
I think the reason Vonnegut references actual characters in his works is because on some level they are characters that have resonated with him Above he Explains in a linked interview with Book Report who Billy Pilgrim was based on.