ENGL 3072 : Notes After Midterm
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Ptsd pretty much sums up the whole book. Wwii: dresden bombing: britain america went over and bombed dresden which was a tourist destination, a senseless bombing. The story has been slow to come out over the decades: a battle that wasn"t really a battle . Civil rights movements: racial and gender/sexuality movements. The rise of a certain type of scientific fiction: soft scientific fiction . If i hadn"t spent so much time studying earthlings, said the. Tralfamadorian, i wouldn"t have any idea what was meant by free will. " i"ve visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and i have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on earth is there any talk of free will. (chapter 4) Slaughterhouse five by kurt vonnegut is an interesting anit-war book. I liked the science fiction aspect of the novel especially the way it expressed the horrors of war.
