My Slaughterhouse

          The Book Slaughterhouse Five is an awesome example of post modernism. Vonnegut has random, reocurring, moments in this novel where he travels through time, so to speak. There are hundreds of examples of the five components of what post modernism stands for. Before I read this book, I hadn't quite fully grasped the concept of post modernism, and what it actually ment. After reading most of this novel, i feel like i hadve a completely new understand and grasp of post modernism, and what it tries to portray.
          Throught this novel, Vonnegut travels through time, in a way, and re-lives his life. He goes from his time in the war, to his daughter all grown up and getting married, to his time he got abducted by Tralfalmadorians and sent to their planet out in space. What is cool about his writing techniques is that he doesnt ever let the reader know, or give them any heads up, of when he goes in and out of this time periods. He just randomly switches and makes the reader think, and come away from the book, with a different persective than the person next to them. That right there is an awesome example of breaking the chronological order rule, or theory. Who says books, and life, has to go in the correct order. Your brain doesnt have to have everything dumbed down for it to recognize and understand what is going on around it.
          Another aspect of post modernism Vonnegut uses in this book is breaking the fourth wall. Which means the writer talks directly to the reader in a time where it is not meant to happen in. Theres a time in the book, when he is talking about something, i dont quite remember, and he randomly says, "It is me, it is I, the writer of this book." Which when you are in the moment, and reading the page, and you randomly get a curveball thrown at you, you dont know what just happened. That moment right there is the reasoning behind Vonnegut writing this book. Not all post modernism made sense, especially in the era which it was created in. That was the point! Authors didnt write these books so they could be thrown on another bookshelf at some random bookstore to be picked up once or twice in its lifespan. NO. They wrote these books to make readers think, fall in love, bring something to the table that has never been done before. THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT IN POST MODERNISM.