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Slaughterhouse - Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, is a novel about the senselessness of war, told through protagonist, Billy Pilgrim. Slaughterhouse - Five is a satire, which is a work that makes fun of something serious. In this case it is war. The plot of this novel is very scattered, and skips around a great deal. It goes f ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... coat was from a dead soldier with brass buttons, numbers and stars. Billy’s was the only one from a civilian, not only a civilian but a woman. “The coat that Billy Pilgrim got had been crumpled and frozen in such a way, and was so small, that it appeared to be not a coat but a sort of large black, three-cornered hat. There were gummy stains on it, too, like crankcase drainings or old strawberry jam. There seemed to be a dead, furry animal frozen to it. The animal was infact the coat’s fur collar.” (Vonnegut, ....