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Many writers in history have written science fiction novels and had great success with them, but only a few have been as enduring over time as Kurt Vonnegut?s Slaughterhouse-Five. Slaughterhouse-Five is a personal novel which draws upon Vonnegut?s experience?s as a scout in World War Two, his capture and becoming a prisoner of war, and his witnessing of the fire bombing of Dresden in February of 1945, the greatest man-caused massacre in history. …

…as Lot?s wife did, and enjoy the good moments and bad as well that life brings to us. (Dunstan 1) Slaughterhouse-Five gives the reader insight on the meaning of life, time, and war. The thought of humans being able to view their lives moments concurrently and not linearly is erroneous to the reader, yet Kurt Vonnegut brings into the reader?s head the idea of time being relative and only existing in human?s imaginations.