Agenda

Chapter 6 Slaughterhouse Five Discussion

Group EssayRead Chapter 7 Slaughterhouse Five

& Come prepared with a printed/typed introduction for your group essay

Chapter 6

Billy wakes in the prison hospital and listens to Lazzaro telling him of his plans for sadistic revenge, which include his repeated vow to have Billy killed.

Billy has recorded a description of his own death in Chicago on February 13, 1976: He gives a speech, is shot, and “experiences death for a while.”

He then “swings back into life again,” in the prison hospital in 1945. In need of shoes, Billy acquires the silver boots used by the Cinderella character in the camp play.

Vonnegut seems to use the shoes as a symbol of innocence confronted by harsh reality. The American prisoners are then shipped in boxcars to Dresden and moved into a slaughterhouse.

Chapter 6 Discussion Questions

1. What is the source of the animal magnetism Billy feels in the prison hospital shed?

2. What does Lazzaro say is the sweetest thing in life? What story does he tell to prove his point?

3. What advice does Lazzaro give Billy? 4. How does Billy die? 5. What positive attributes of Dresden does the

Englishman share with the American POWs?

Chapter 6 Discussion Questions

6. How is Edgar Derby elected head American?

7. To what does the author compare his first view of Dresden?

8. Describe the Americans’ arrival in Dresden.

9. Describe the Americans’ “home away from home.”

Group Essay

Make sure that you complete steps 1-2 in class and half of three by tomorrow!

Complete in a Google Document so that all students in the group can edit accordingly.

You MUST bring a copy of the working introduction to class tomorrow.

Type and print it. Make sure that ALL group members have a copy

they can write on for tomorrow.