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__Slaughterhouse - Five__ Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I selected this novel because when I was looking through our choices for our novel, this title caught my eye. I thought it was going to be scary or something about murder, and those kinds of books are my favorite. I didn't have any background information before choosing this book, I just hoped it'd be a good book. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is narrating the story himself. As the story begins, the author says that the story he's going to tell us is more or less, true. This story takes place in 1967, in Dresden. The setting is important because Dresden is where everything happened, and if you're trying to use imagery of where it is, the place helps you. Also, the year helps, 1967, you can tell if there's technology like we have now. In 1967 they didn't have nearly as much as we do now, so times were more difficult back then, that helps you imagine the story too. The first problem was that the narrator's mother was killed in Dresden, so that is a major problem for the narrator. In the story, a man gets executed for stealing a teapot from the ruins of Dresden. Vonnegut says that he and his war buddy, Bernard V. O'Hare, actually returned in Dresden in 1967. When they were there, they met a cab driver named Gerhard Muller who'd been a prisoner of the Americans during war. Gerhard tells the two men about living under Communism, and how terrible it was, but now it has gotten much better.