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  1. Amanda

    Amanda edited the glossary of Slaughterhouse-Five 3 days ago.

    • Added the definition of Salmon Roe: Salmon eggs, better known as red caviar.
    • Added the definition of Thumbscrew: An instrument of torture consisting of a ring into which the thumb is inserted and a screw that is then tightened gradually, until the bones are shattered.
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  2. Amanda

    Amanda edited the books with additional background information of Slaughterhouse-Five 3 days ago.

    • Added Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
    • Added Prestwick House, Inc. AP Individual Learning Packet Teaching Unit; Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    • Added Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Fiven (Cliffs Notes)
    • Added Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Slaughterhouse-Five": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 03, Chapter 12)
    • Added Spark Notes Slaughterhouse 5
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  3. Amanda

    Amanda edited the books that influenced this book of Slaughterhouse-Five 3 days ago.

    • Added The Sirens of Titan
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  4. Amanda

    Amanda edited the books like this book of Slaughterhouse-Five 3 days ago.

    • Added God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
    • Added The Art of Dreaming
    • Added Short stories. (English.)
    • Added Ars Magica, Fifth Edition
    • Added The Book of Chuang Tzu (Arkana S.)
    • Added The Lady and the Monk. Four Seasons in Kyoto.
    • Added I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC!
    • Added The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • Added Mother Night
    • Added The Sirens of Titan
    • Added Breakfast of Champions
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  5. something witty

    something witty edited the quotations of Slaughterhouse-Five 3 days ago.

      • reordered the quotations.
    • Edited a quotation: “...The boy was as beautiful as Eve.
    • Edited a quotation: “...If everybody would leave him alone for just a little while, he thought, he wouldn't cause anybody anymore trouble. He would turn to steam and float up among the tree tops.
    • Edited a quotation: “...All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
    • Edited a quotation: “,..How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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  6. Saige S

    Saige S edited the quotations of Slaughterhouse-Five 4 days ago.

    • Edited a quotation: “How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.,..
    • Edited a quotation: “All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber....
    • Edited a quotation: “If everybody would leave him alone for just a little while, he thought, he wouldn't cause anybody anymore trouble. He would turn to steam and float up among the tree tops....
    • Edited a quotation: “The boy was as beautiful as Eve....
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  7. Saige S

    Saige S edited the quotations of Slaughterhouse-Five 4 days ago.

    • Edited a quotation: “And even if the wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
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  8. Saige S

    Saige S edited the quotations of Slaughterhouse-Five 4 days ago.

    • Edited a quotation: “Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.And even if the wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.
    • Edited a quotation: “HeIt is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is innothing intelligent to say about a constant state of stage fright, he says, because hemassacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never knowssay anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what part of his life hedo the birds say? All there is goingto have to act in next.say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?
    • Edited a quotation: “So they were trying"When a person dies, he only appears to re-invent themselvesdie. He is still very much alive in the past...all moments, past, present, and their universe... Science fiction was a big help.future, always have existed, always will exist"
    • Edited a quotation: “It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligentHow nice — to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre,feel nothing, and it always is, exceptstill get full credit for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?being alive.
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  9. Saige S

    Saige S edited the characters of Slaughterhouse-Five 4 days ago.

    • Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
    • Edited the description of Billy Pilgrim: The main charactor of the story, a WW2 vet who was a POW in the bombing of Dresden. He shifts through time, and is sometimes abducted by aliens.
    • Edited the description of Roland Weary: Was with Billy in the war. He was obsessed with torture devices and gore. In his dying words he blamed Billy for his death.
    • Edited the description of Paul Lazzaro: Also blames Billy for Weary's death, and says he can have anyone killed for a thousand dollars.
    • Edited the description of Kilgore Trout: science fiction writer who Billy meets in an alley way.
    • Edited the description of Edgar Derby: An older fellow who was a teacher, and wanted to come to war because he couldn't stand seeing all his students go off to war while he wasted away.
    • Edited the description of Howard W. Campbell, Jr.: A nazi
    • Edited the description of Valencia Merble: Billy's wife who dies of carbon monixcide poisoning on her way to visit Billy in the hospital after his plane crash.
    • Edited the description of Robert Pilgrim: Billy's son who faught in the Green Barets during the Vietnam war.
    • Edited the description of Barbara Pilgrim: Billy's daughter who thinks her Father is crazy and treats him like a child.
    • Edited the description of Montana Wildhack: Famous movie actress who Billy is put on display with at the zoo on Tralfamadore. Billy has a child with her.
    • Edited the description of Wild Bob: A general who is dying of fever and who tells Billy and the other soliders to call him wild Bob, which is what he always wanted his men to call him.
    • Edited the description of Eliot Rosewater: Billy's friend who tells him about Kilgore Trout.
    • Edited the description of Bertram Copeland Rumfoord: He was a Harvard history professor, retired Air Force brigadier general, and millionaire, who shares a hospital room with Billy and asks Billy to tell him stories about his experince in the Dresden Bombing.
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  10. Saige S

    Saige S edited the summary of Slaughterhouse-Five 4 days ago.

    • Listen: Billy Pilgrim ishas come unstuck in time. Billy lives a normal life, he has a boy that attends the illium schoolwife and kids. He battled in new york. He gets drafted into the army for world war 2. BillyWW2, and now is an optomitrist in thee battle of the bulge where he is taken as prisoner.New York. Before being taken billyBilly experiences his first time shifting, he sees his whole life flash before his eyes. After being captured and suffering a breakdown billyBilly gets shot up with morphine where he experiences more time shifting.Then billy getsshifting. Billy is transported to dresdenthe bombing of Dresden, where the city gets bobmbedhe and billy andfellow americans surviveAmerican soldiers live by locking themselves in a meat cooler. After returning to americaAmerica and getting married, billymarried he submits himself to a veterans hospital because he has a nervous breakdown. While he is there anotherAnother patient shows him the writingbooks written by Kilgore Trout, an eccentric science-fiction writer. Billy goes through his life having many shiftings. The night of kilgore trout. Athis 18thdaughters wedding anniversary the sound of a barber shop quartet reminds him of dresden wherehe has another breakdown.The night after his daughter’s wedding in 1967, billyis kidnapped by two-foot-hightwo foot high aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who resemble upside-downlook like toilet plungers, who are called Tralfamadorians. Theyplungers. The Tralfamadorians take him into their flying saucer to theplanet Tralfamadore, where they mateand put him on display naked with a movie actress from earth named Montana Wildhack. The Tralfamadoreians can see in four dimensions. When heBilly returns to Earth, Billy initially says nothing of his experiences. In 1968Earth he gets on a chartered plane to go to an optometry conference in Montreal. The plane crashes into a mountain, and, among them only Billy survives. Billy’s daughter places him under the care of a nurse back home in Ilium, however he feels that itis time to tell the world what he has learned. Billy has forseen this moment while time shifting,seen as crazy and he knows thatsenile by his message will eventually be accepted. He tells his thoughts on a radio talk show. Then he writes a letter to the local paper.friends and family. Billy makes a tape recording of his account of his death, which he predicts will occur in 1976 after Chicago has been hydrogen-bombed by the Chinese. He knows exactly how it will happen, a vengeful man he knew in the war will hire someone to shoot him. Billy adds thathim, and there’s nothing he will experience the violet hum of death and then will skip backcan do to some other point in his life. He has seen it all many times.stop it. Poo-tee-weet?

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