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This 7 page paper discusses the way in which the authors of "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Vonnegut) and "100 Years of Solitude" (Márquez) have used understatement to tell of human misery. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the way in which the authors of the books have used understatement to tell of human misery. Slaughterhouse-Five The New York Times describes Vonneguts books as "like nothing else on
this earth," and indeed they are. They are sexy, violent, and extremely odd; Slaughterhouse-Five is just such a weird tale. Its protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, has come "unstuck in time" for
no reason that is ever revealed and goes bouncing from decade to decade, back and forth throughout his life; even his death, where there was nothing, not even him. He
works as an optometrist, is the sole survivor of a plane crash, winds up as a specimen in a zoo on Tralfamadore, and is a young infantryman caught up in
the firebombing of Dresden in World War II (At last, Kurt Vonneguts famous Dresden book, 1969). Hes taken prisoner there and ends up in a POW camp in
the basement of a slaughterhouse (At last, Kurt Vonneguts famous Dresden book, 1969). The book is based in large part on the fact that Vonnegut was a witness to the
Dresden bombing. It took place near the end of the World War II, and is one of the most horrific events of the war. Allied bombers dropped so many
bombs on the city that they created a firestorm-a self-perpetuating inferno that destroyed the city almost complete. The worst part of it was that Dresden was not a military target,
nor was it one of the cities notorious for Nazi activities. On the contrary, it was a city of culture, art and music, and most of its population at the
time of the bombing were civilians. It is thought that the Dresden bombing claimed almost twice as many victims as Hiroshima (Slaughterhouse 5, 2006). There has never been an adequate
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