1977 Paris Review interview with Kurt Vonnegut
1. What stands out about this interview is how Vonnegut throws in dark humor every once and while.
2. Vonnegut's experience of surviving the bombing of Dresden inspired him to write slaughter house 5.
3. Would you have ever written a war story if you had not experienced this.
Honors
Choice #3) In a well developed, thoughtful piece of writing that uses direct quotes, explain the use of symbols to develop a theme in your novel.
Vonnegut explains how no one really talks about what has happened after a battle. they are all quiet, but the bird sing with enthusiasm like nothings happened. "And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet"" pg 19. This could mean the media and Hollywood and other big money makers glorify war. The birds are those who don't understand the gravity of which war brings.
"And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human...This one is a failure, and had to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt. It begins like this," pg 22. This shows that Vonnegut looks back on this war not to glorify it but to lay the truth down to us even if it fails at striking us deeply. He looks back not with guilt or remorse but because he is human an is drawn to what effects us most in our lives.
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