Slaughterhouse-Five: Difference between revisions

* [[Unstuck in Time]]: The [[Trope Namer]].

* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: There are a couple parts of the book that were based on Vonnegut's own experiences, such as the descriptions of Dresden post-bombing and Edgar Derby being executed for looting a teapot.

* [[World War II]]

* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: One of the Tralfamadorians says, "I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe.... Only on Earth is there any talk of free will."

** The narrator also says that the climax will be when Edgar Derby is shot for stealing a teapot, and that is probably the textbook example of a [[Bathos|deliberate anticlimax]].

** On a more meta example, the prologue explains [[Foregone Conclusion|exactly how the book will end]].

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