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=Kurt Vonnegut - //Slaughterhouse Five// - Chapter 1 (Bill)=

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Notes and Comment
This first chapter is more like an opening for the book. This chapter is where Kurt Vonnegut Describes how he and his old war buddy Bernard V. O'Hare go back to Dresden and also a lot of the back story behind his "Anti war book". And also describes a history of Dresden. Then he goes to describe of how he and O'Hare get in to a discussion about crusades after he names his book the children’s crusade in honor of O'Hare's wife Mary and actually dedicates the book to her. On the first page Kurt Vonnegut describe his to Dresden trip with O'Hare and They Made Friends with cab driver Gerhard Muller. He describes it to be kind of like Dayton, OH, Just with more open spaces. The first chapter is very slow but the book picks up by the second chapter.



Quotations
"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. one guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his." Kurt Vonnegut Page 1 This quote opens the book tells the reader that this chapter is kind of like an opening too the story

"Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and there homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren't not supposed to look back. I'm not certainly not going to do it anymore. I've finised my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun. This one is a failure, and it has to be, since it was written by a pillar of salt." Kurt Vonnegut Pages 21-22 This Quote describes the end of the two towns of Sodom and Gomorrah. When Lot and his family fled the cities they were told not to look back but Lot's wife looked back and she was turned into a pillar of salt. and so Kurt Vonnegut calls himself a pillar of salt for looking back at the past.

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