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Slaughterhouse-Five. By Kurt Vonnegut. Family. Stock Market crashed when Vonnegut was seven years old - Father and the arts - Mother became despondent - Vonnegut went to public school Mother committed suicide 1944. Schooling. Public school – positive experience
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Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut
Family Stock Market crashed when Vonnegut was seven years old - Father and the arts - Mother became despondent - Vonnegut went to public school Mother committed suicide 1944
Schooling Public school – positive experience 1936-1940 – Attended Cornell University Major – chemistry and biology (biochemist) Managing editor and columnist for the school newspaper (Cornell Sun) Enlisted in the U.S. Army after losing deferred status Studied mechanical engineering as part of his military training
Soldier What was happening in the World War II - Nazi, Japanese and Italian war effort was in decline - Battle of the Bulge - age of 23 – captured by Germans - worked in a factory making vitamin-enriched malt syrup for pregnant women
Dresden February 13-14, 1945 Bombing - U.S. Air Force - Royal Air Force
Post-War Masters in anthropology Began to write fiction Took 20 years to write Slaughterhouse-5
Dresden When? Why? Casualties
Modernism v. Postmodernism Similarities Differences When? Why?
