In Slaughterhouse-Five, why does Vonnegut turn to the “unreal”—science fiction—to depict historical atrocity/the terrors modern society can inflict upon
people? Here, you likely will want to analyze such topics as: narrative v. anti- narrative; why the novel is “so short and jumbled and jangled”; why time is
spastic; what the form of the novel itself signifies; how the novel/the form of the novel counters typical war narratives.