Schlachthof Fünf Slaughterhouse-Five The novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, raises many important questions that surround itself with one of the major themes in the novel. Themes such as life and death, the role of fate in one's life, time and space, acceptance and human dignity (just to name a few). Slaughterhouse-Five forces the individual who reads it to ask many moralistic questions. Questions such as where he/she would spend eternity, what is one's purpose in life, …showed first 75 words of 4059 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4059 total…happen in wartime, brought about by an unfortunate combination of circumstances. Those who approved it were neither wicked nor cruel, though it may well be that they were too remote from the harsh realities of war to understand fully the appalling destructive power of air bombardment in the spring of 1945." I can honestly say that Slaughterhouse-Five was one of the best novels I have ever read and I applaud Vonnegut on creating such a novel.