Outside Reading #4

For this outside reading, I am going to switch topics and blog about the book that I am reading for english. The book that I have just started is Slaughterhouse Five. I am only sixty pages into this book, but already I really like it. The first thirty pages or so are just about Kurt Vonnegut, the author, and how he has decided to publish this book and why he wanted to write about it. At first, he thought it would be an easy topic to talk about, because he had experienced it firsthand, but he soon realized that he didn't remember a lot of what went on. He ends up calling some of his old commerades from the war to ask them if they remember. After writing the book, Vonnegut says that the reason for publishing was to talk about anti-war, and the tradgedies of what goes on. In the next thirty pages, it switches to the young boy in the forests of Germany toward the end of WWII. He is walking around with his commerades, when to are shot. The other two are captured in a riverbank and taken to a cottege by the Germans. The German troops just took pictures of the Americans, trying to show that they just captured them.