"Celine was a brave French soldier in the First World War- until his skull was cracked." (pg.21)
This blog analyzes Vonnegut's style throughout the novel. His writing style is very sarcastic with a touch of dark humor, which is why I am really enjoying this book, even though it gets graphic at times. First, the author's style is influenced by the narrator's experience in war, adding to the desensitized tone. For example, in this quote, the author perfectly describes a heroic person, but then bluntly describes his death completely disregarding senstivity. The author's excuse, however, is that he was involved in a brutal war, a "massacre," which creates a lack of a sense of sensitivity and feeling. In a way, this helps the author's anti-war argument. The quote shows that by going through war, a person's sense of feeling is diminished which explains the blatant and graphic imagery. Another phrase the narrator uses is "and so on" or "so it goes." These phrases also show how the speaker is so used to death that it doesn't affect him anymore. The argument he uses is that the time a person spends dying is nothing compared to all the time they spent happy, so that logic itself is acceptable. The fact that he claims he learned it from the Tralfamadorians is a bit sketchy....
This blog analyzes Vonnegut's style throughout the novel. His writing style is very sarcastic with a touch of dark humor, which is why I am really enjoying this book, even though it gets graphic at times. First, the author's style is influenced by the narrator's experience in war, adding to the desensitized tone. For example, in this quote, the author perfectly describes a heroic person, but then bluntly describes his death completely disregarding senstivity. The author's excuse, however, is that he was involved in a brutal war, a "massacre," which creates a lack of a sense of sensitivity and feeling. In a way, this helps the author's anti-war argument. The quote shows that by going through war, a person's sense of feeling is diminished which explains the blatant and graphic imagery. Another phrase the narrator uses is "and so on" or "so it goes." These phrases also show how the speaker is so used to death that it doesn't affect him anymore. The argument he uses is that the time a person spends dying is nothing compared to all the time they spent happy, so that logic itself is acceptable. The fact that he claims he learned it from the Tralfamadorians is a bit sketchy....
No comments:
Post a Comment