Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5
Notes:
anti war novel
semi autobiographical
non linear narrative
fate, free will, illogical nature of human beings
Billy Pilgrim (protagonist) experiences events in his life
fatalism
human senselessness
war
Four dimensional, ontological view concerned with how objects exist in time
spatial analogue
EXISTENCE
Senselessness Definition
Cat's Cradle
A childhood game used by Vonnegut to point out the senselessness of human existence. It's all in our minds
''See the cat? See the cradle''
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