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The Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut is famous novel that have not only deep sense, but also forced people to think about their life and behavior. I want to prove the thesis that Slaughterhouse Five depicts man as naturally good, but the military’s code of amorality strips away natural compassion. I would like to use specific examples from the author’s life and they, in my opinion, will help me to be well-founded in my argumentation.
I would like to begin my discussion of the chosen topic through the prehistory of this paper writing. I have read the book the Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and then I saw the film that was produced by the plot of the book. It is necessary to say that both sources greatly influence on my perception of the material and both of them left their imprint on my perception. I could not say that I like the book more than the film or vice versa, because both of them have their specific inimitable characteristics that make them similar to each other and differ at the same time. I’m a person with creative imagination and reading the book I imagine some details in my own way differ from the way illustrated in the film. The book is full of descriptions and dialogues, full of writer’s emotions, it is a kind of real world, because reading the book I plunge into this reading with great pleasure, and it was the possibility to change my reality on main character’s reality full of sufferings, emotions and deep thoughts about surrounding reality. In the film I found also many interesting facts that show me some aspects from other position and I think that it was good addition to my own experience about t book. Therefore, basing on above stated prehistory I would like to ask your permission to compare and contrast the book with the film and through these differences and similarities is more argumentative in my discussion.
I would like to present some facts from Vonnegut’s life and the first one will have the next emotional character. In February 1945, Vonnegut witnessed the barbaric bombing of the city, which killed about 135,000 people. The experiences left an imprint on his life and work, made him a passionate campaigner against the war and his best novel was written under this reflection.

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The full title of the novel is the next: “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death” and it was published in 1969, in the midst of social upheaval in American society caused by the war in Vietnam. Exactly in this period the country was appalled by news that American soldiers massacred civilians’ Vietnamese village of Mai-Lai. It was a period when the rebellious students seized the campus and took over the management of universities. In the State of New York passed a sign of protest that in future become legendary festival and had a title “Woodstock”. In addition, in this time of public frustration at the peak of the Vietnam War appeared Slaughterhouse-Five, a book that made Vonnegut a symbol of the so-called counterculture of the 60’s. Black humor and sharp social criticism helped the writer to create an alternate fantasy world for his characters, many of whom came from his own life. First of all it concerns time-traveling Billy Pilgrim, especially when he comes back in 1945, the third day after the destruction of Dresden. Surviving in Dresden, Vonnegut gave to his hero own words that had clearly expressed his attitude to violence and injustice. Vonnegut said the next phrase: “I told my sons that they had not participate in massacres, and when they heard about the slaughterhouse of the enemy, they would not take any joy or satisfaction.” We see that these words reflect not only pain about people’s destinies, but also big interest in people’s souls, because people with pure soul will never be happy when other people will suffer from the slaughterhouse of the enemy.
The novel, like many other books written by Vonnegut, was into a so-called list of “harmful” in the U.S., it seized from the libraries, and however, under the pretext they contain “obscenity”. This prompted the writer to engage actively in the fight against censorship. According to Loeb “If some people managed to get their aims in this country, they would not be able to freely disseminate ideas, – Vonnegut said in an interview. – I always thought one of the remarkable features of this country that I can say anything I want, and that any other person can say whatever he wants. Then we compare all possible views and come to some kind of opinion.” (Loeb, 1979)
I want to add to the previous information that many of his books became bestsellers, and some of them became the plot for the film. In 1972, appeared a film version, with the title Slaughterhouse-Five. In an interview with Film Comment in 1985, Vonnegut even called the film “perfect embodiment” of his story, which can be considered genuine assessment in light of his comments on other adaptations of his works.