Essays Tagged: "tralfamadorians"
Summary of slaughterhouse-five
d Tralfamadore, where he, among other things, mates with the pornography star Montana Wildhack. The Tralfamadorians finally explain his time travel in 1967, when he is kidnapped and taken to Tralfamad ... d and taken to Tralfamadore. He understands that he is not really absent form earth at all, because Tralfamadorians see time as a dimension. The plot is actually a little confusing and hard to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Slaughterhouse Five
and, consequently, his death, many times, and also knows that he has been kidnapped by aliens, the Tralfamadorians. Billy also shares ideas that he has learned while on Tralfamadore, about the concep ... (page 75).Chapter 5 Slaughterhouse Five This (incredibly long) chapter is, I feel, mainly about the Tralfamadorians. There were other important things in there, like his admittance to a psychiatric ho ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Slaughter House Five Reader Response
travel to the future to the part when he was going to give his speech in New York about the aliens, Tralfamadorians. When he is about to start his speech, Billy ends up time traveling again, leaving t ... out to start his speech, Billy ends up time traveling again, leaving the reader wondering about the Tralfamadorians and what he was going to say in his speech.Another reason the book is confusing is w ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut
effects of war plays an essential role in the foundation of this novel. Free will, according to the Tralfamadorians is a concept that is only seen on earth. These strange creatures have extrasensory p ... facts all he wants, but the fact of the matter is that is going to happen no matter what. What the Tralfamadorians basically believed was that people do what they do not because they want to, but bec ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Slaughterhouse-Five
to illustrate how free will is questionably nonexistent. Vonnegut exploits Billy's abduction of the Tralfamadorians. Through his abduction Billy discovers the Tralfamadorian's view on life. The Tralfa ... smos, but by reinventing the nature of time, Vonnegut deprives death of its sting. According to the Tralfamadorians time is not linear but simultaneous. Everything that has happened or will happen exi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Social Responsibility in Slaughterhouse-Five
ut's Slaughterhouse Five, the very nature of social responsibility and free will is challenged. The Tralfamadorians, an alien race from a distant planet, capture protagonist Billy Pilgrim, and introdu ... concept of time is a motif used by Vonnegut that acts as a commentary on social responsibility. The Tralfamadorians can see events in time like a traveler can see the peaks on a stretch of the Rocky M ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Antiwar theme in "Slaughterhouse-Five"
the main character as a "filthy flamingo" or when Billyattempted to publish his encounter with the Tralfamadorians. Both are slightly satirical, and when this style is employed in parts of the book a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Slaughterhouse - Five Themes
zing the pointlessness of war. He tries to make sense of all this and begins to fantasize about the Tralfamadorians who are an alien race. These aliens abduct Pilgrim and put him in a special place fo ... liens abduct Pilgrim and put him in a special place for humans to further study the human race. The Tralfamadorians tell Pilgrim about their knowledge of the fourth dimension and how time is always re ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers