World War I. In the first few paragraphs he explains 2 movements that were created inclined by the
war. He provides a general artistic background followed by an extended example. The author offers a
postmodern writer, named Kurt Vonnegut Jr, a well-known American author. He is well known for his
style of writing, often jumping around in time, place and character between each chunk of texts.
In the first paragraph, the author dedicates after World War I or known simply as the “Great War”,
influenced a new era in arts and literature to initiate. The new movement is called Modernism. The
author points out that we still use the word “modern” …show more content…
The result of the movement wasn’t
upright, but it was able to trace its themes back to the war and the feelings that pervaded public
culture during the war’s aftermath. The Modernism took on the sense of the tragedy of the war. The
author compares the Victorian novel to the modern novel; the author mentions “instead of proper
manners and happy endings of the Victorian novel, modern novels are not only …show more content…
Further on the author continues to explain
why Vonnegut’s writing style is unique, he mentions, “The stories he tells are often nonlinear, jumping
around in time, place, and character between each chunk of text.” Furthermore the author provides an
example of Vonnegut’s most well-known book, “Slaughterhouse-Five”, proving that Vonnegut is writing
in a style of Tranlfamadorian novel. This refers to an imaginary alien species that is capable of seeing
through time as well as space. Considered by Vonnegut, a novel like this appears to be disconnected
or disjointed from human readers when read from the beginning till the end. But in the other hand, a
Tranlfamadorian is able to look through time and look through time and see all pieces at once coming
together into a single enlightening point of clarity and truth. This show the perspective of Vonnegut
suggesting that the appearance of fragmentation and chaos in their society is largely due to human’s
failure to achieve the proper perspective. Continuously Vonnegut claims that the role of the artist is to
bring together the proper perspective, moreover the author concludes that the role of the artist is