Slaughter House V

My outside reading novel would be... Slaughter House V by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is enjoyable to some extent where I would have to be able to keep track of how and where the book bounces too in the storyline. The novel is about war, the book describes how bad war can be, and the theme is about how some people haven't considered how bad war can be. The book tries to explain war as best it can in a series of scenes, the only way someone would be able to follow this book is to have a mind that can grasp one situation as it reads another and connects the two some how.

The hardest thing to grasp is the plot, that is the one literary element that seems to be the hardest concept to get a hold on in this novel. The plot is something that isn't easily shown, because the book is about war and it twists and turns through scenes back and forth, the plot can change easily. That is the toughest and most difficult thing to grasp, the way the book twists from scene to scene, it seems illogical and unlikely to be connected but somehow it stays in one plot. The main plot is that the man is trying to tell people that war should try to be avoided but to some extent, doesn't necessarily matter, that people should try and not grief over ones death but just move on because that one person had lived in a different time.

This novel compares with another novel I had read, this book is called Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden. This story also tells about how war can be terrible and that it should be avoided, but it's from a closer point of view. Black Hawk Down tells of how a black ops helicopter crashes behind enemy lines, and it goes on from there in a close look at how terrible war really can be. I am still contemplating a way to present Slaughter House V in a project, but maybe I could use a PowerPoint or maybe I could use a skit, I am still thinking about it.