Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Chapter Ten: Narration
In the Slaughterhouse Five, every chapter, except chapter one, was in third person. In chapter ten, the narration was a mixture of first person and third person. Vonnegut writes, "Now Billy and the rest of were being marched into the ruins by their guards. I was there. O'Hare was there" (212). Kurt Vonnegut's story may have been in first person throughout the whole book. He was telling a story and never really decided to use the word I except in chapter one and chapter ten. I really liked how it ended the story by including his character in the plot at the end of the book.
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I found it interesting how Vonnegut wrote a story semi-based on his experiences yet also included himself as a seperate character. It is interesting in that even though Vonnegut includes himself as the narrator, he is still a character in the novel. I believe this division of himself is to distance himself from his horrible experienes in war by somewhat transferring them onto another "character".
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