Discussion Questions for Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (pp. 109-215)

ENGL270L Norwich University Slaughterhouse Five Book Discussion

Discussion Questions for Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (pp. 109-215)

1. Why are the last words of the novel “Poo-tee-weet”? What statement is Vonnegut making by closing his text this way

2. In the first chapter one character tells the narrator that when he hears someone is writing an anti-war book, he asks, “[w]hy don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?” (3). Clearly, the narrator is warning that it may be impossible to write anything against war. After having finished the novel, is it an anti-war book? Why or why not? Support your answer with solid answers from the text.