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Slaughterhouse Five Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Slaughterhouse Five is one of many books Kurt Vonnegut has written. While this is the only explicitly anti-war novel, he often experiments with unconventional structure, reappearing characters, and overlapping genres (particularly, science fiction is used again and again). Some of his other critically-acclaimed novels include Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Bluebeard, and Mother Night.

A Man Without a Country (2005) is a collection of essays where Vonnegut shares his opinion on a variety of important topics, including politics, war, technology, humor, and gender.

In The Things They Carried (2008) by author Tim O'Brien, the author uses his experience in combat during the...

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