Outside Reading: Slaughterhouse-five

          To be honest Slaughterhouse-five is not one of my favorite books. The beginning is confusing to me, other people might not think so. I don’t know if this book is about Kurt and his life or someone else. Im not sure if the Billy Pilgrim story is now the rest of the novel or not. The book has some foul language, which I try to ignore, and overall it is boring. There is not much excitement where I am at and I am hoping that it will get better. I am having a hard time explaining my thoughts on the book, it’s hard to get the right wording on what I think. From hearing about what people say on about the book, I am hoping that my perspective on it will change and I’ll enjoy it more.

          In Slaughterhouse-five, there are several main and or interesting characters but Billy Pilgrim is the main guy. He is a time traveler. Billy says that the Tralfamadorians, from planet Tralfamadore, kidnaped him and took him to his planet. Billy is able to travel in the past, present and future but he has no control over when he goes and where he goes. Billy can go from being at the YMCA learning to swim with his dad to being and 20-40 and falling asleep during his work. He always goes back to World War ll being beat up by Weary because he thinks that Billy is disappearing and or hiding from him and Weary doesn’t like it. Right now Weary and Billy just heard the sound of the Scouts being shot. The Germans had just striped Billy and Weary of their good clothes and items and took them back to be prisoners of war.
           I can’t say that I can relate any other book with this one. I haven’t read a book like this one before except in history. The way it is written sounds like something a text book or journal of that time would say. Slaughterhouse-five is interesting when it comes to be compared with other novels. There isn’t much I can say in this question/section of my blog because I am blank. My thoughts are getting to me but I am having a hard time typing them up. Well I guess that Slaughterhouse-five and Shiver/Linger have something in common, both of the novels take place in the woods. The woods is one of the main settings where all the action takes place. Billy Pilgrim is a soldier of World War ll, he walks through, around and in the woods all the time for protection, orders (he was told to) or that’s where he was positioned. In the other novels I mentioned, a lot of the action takes place in the woods and the outdoors. Grace, the main character, is in love with a wolf named Sam, in Linger (book number 1) you find out that Sam isn’t just any ordinary wolf, he is able to change into a human along with a number of other “people”. Anyways, the action and climax of the novel is bound to be found/ read about being in the woods.

          For the project i think that I might make a poster or draw a scene/part of the book. Im not one-hundred percent sure on what I want to do or what would be a good idea to do but I have a few things in mind so I’m not totally blank. I think that it would be fun to do some sort of painting but I don’t know the image to paint. I can’t paint the cover of the book because there is no picture. Maybe I could write a poem about the book, it might be challenging but it is unique.... but like I said, I’m not totally positive on my idea.