Monday, January 10, 2011
Review about "Slaughter House 5"
The story was interesting to deal about the time traveler, but it was also confusing that the story is not chronologically ordered. It was interesting to travel between the imaginary world and real world by dealing with imaginary planet and World War II. For me, the book was actually boring in regarding to the new and curious usage of time travel. However, Billy's ambiguous position and his unknown idea befuddle me to understand the whole story. The sudden change of Billy's time travel made me to think the order of time and his mysterious stories is considerable that implies significant meaning. It was abstruse but valuable enough to challenge the book.
Review of 'Slaughter House Five'& Time Travel
'Slaughter House Five' is realistic but nonrealistic story that deals with the theme about time travel. With the contrast between Bill's and Tralfalmadore's idea, the book shows the revolutionary definition about time. Usually, humanity has considered history as significant record and regarded past, present and future in three different categories. Based on our viewpoints, time is the automatic flow that human should obey. However, Tralfalmadore views past, present, future in whole one point and regards time as imperturbable principle of universe. The famous quote "So it goes" is the author, Vonnegut's typical definition about time. So, the usage of time travel in the story not only brings the curiosity to the reader but also makes the reader to consider time in whole different concept. For me, time travel is possible but impossible idea for human to discover. Human is created upon the principle of universe that if we disobey to follow it, we will lose history, present and future. That's my concern regarding to the time concept in the book.
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