It openly addresses almost every common theme utilized in postmodernist literature and does so in a way that teaches the reader how to identify those concepts for future reading endeavors. Particularly, Vonnegut paints an incredibly interesting picture on the events of World War II from a more realistic perspective—where most works of fiction covering it are of the heroic acts of a soldier or group of soldiers, this novel provides an insight into the hopelessness of the real men who fought that war, and a glimpse of the cruel strings of fate that those soldiers likely believed they had no control
It openly addresses almost every common theme utilized in postmodernist literature and does so in a way that teaches the reader how to identify those concepts for future reading endeavors. Particularly, Vonnegut paints an incredibly interesting picture on the events of World War II from a more realistic perspective—where most works of fiction covering it are of the heroic acts of a soldier or group of soldiers, this novel provides an insight into the hopelessness of the real men who fought that war, and a glimpse of the cruel strings of fate that those soldiers likely believed they had no control