Reading the second chapter of "Slaughter House Five" was again nothing I suspected it to be. I thought the rest of the book was going to be about the authors life. But then I guess, Like you can't judge a book by its cover, you can't judge a person by the paragraph that comes out of there mouth.
The second chapter of "Slaughter House Five" took us to someone elses world: another man, and another life. The man's name is Billy. The guys called Billy for business. His father said people would remember him more. Unfortunately this Billy we read about so far is not our exact genius we may expect to find in a war book, but instead is a man who can see different points of his life and has met with aliens from Tralfamadore. So it goes.
We meet Billy after he has "recovered" from a plane crash. He was the only man who survived, and we learn that he is a,"Funny-looking youth-tall and weak" sort of man. At the time that we meet him Billy is 45 years old, and he reminds me a lot of the funny character Mr. Bean.
We go back a few years to see a younger form of Billy. A young man just barely into college, stuck in Germany with crazy Hallucinations, with two man and a fat man called Roland Weary.
Now Roland Weary believed the other two men and himself are the "Three Musketeers." But sadly in reality, these two men just want to leave him and run! This man shows off all the gruesome things he knows and a perverted picture he keeps with himself.
It surprised me that the school would assign us a book with bad words, at least this is the first for school I have ever read with bad words. Off course I found it hilarious when one man asked Billy to get down before he was shot, "Get out of the road, you dumb mother f*****." Bad words were not used very commonly in the 40s, therefore I think it was perfect to add some humour to the chapter. Chapter 2 is a funny chapter, a story told by an old fart.
The second chapter of "Slaughter House Five" took us to someone elses world: another man, and another life. The man's name is Billy. The guys called Billy for business. His father said people would remember him more. Unfortunately this Billy we read about so far is not our exact genius we may expect to find in a war book, but instead is a man who can see different points of his life and has met with aliens from Tralfamadore. So it goes.
We meet Billy after he has "recovered" from a plane crash. He was the only man who survived, and we learn that he is a,"Funny-looking youth-tall and weak" sort of man. At the time that we meet him Billy is 45 years old, and he reminds me a lot of the funny character Mr. Bean.
We go back a few years to see a younger form of Billy. A young man just barely into college, stuck in Germany with crazy Hallucinations, with two man and a fat man called Roland Weary.
Now Roland Weary believed the other two men and himself are the "Three Musketeers." But sadly in reality, these two men just want to leave him and run! This man shows off all the gruesome things he knows and a perverted picture he keeps with himself.
It surprised me that the school would assign us a book with bad words, at least this is the first for school I have ever read with bad words. Off course I found it hilarious when one man asked Billy to get down before he was shot, "Get out of the road, you dumb mother f*****." Bad words were not used very commonly in the 40s, therefore I think it was perfect to add some humour to the chapter. Chapter 2 is a funny chapter, a story told by an old fart.
As for the "bad word," this book I widely taught in high school throughout the USA.
ReplyDeleteHow do you know bad words weren't used in the 40s. Be aware of hasty generalizations.
ReplyDeleteAlso, get a little bit deeper into the text in terms of close reading.