1. Slaughterhouse 5
What is in a banned book?
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2. WHO is in the story?
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“Billy is spastic in time, has no
control over where he is going
next, and the trips aren‟t
necessarily fun.”
Pg. 35 Ch. 2
Meaning
Billy Pilgrim is a middle-aged man, but
lives in between time dimensions
throughout his whole life. He is taken
back in time to re-experience moments
in his past relative to his future. This is
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travel as a mean to explain the
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significance in moments of life.
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3. WHERE is the story?
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“Tralfamadorians had taken him
through a time warp, so that he could
be on Tralfamadore for years, and still
be away from Earth for only a
microsecond.”
Pg. 36 Ch. 2
Meaning
Billy listens in on a radio program
describing someone‟s experience with
aliens. Billy has the same experiences
when he becomes “unstuck” in time
through his life. Where he is in the
novel could be in World War II where he
was fighting as an American, or reliving
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4. WHEN is the story?
Meaning
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“Moments after that, the saucer entered travel is broadcasted into Billy‟s life.
a time warp, and Billy was flung back This also tells me how to measure when
into his childhood.” events are happening and where they
Pg. 118, Ch. 5 will end up being in Billy‟s lifeline. The
time in which the story takes place is
regulated based on his time warping
during sleep where he ends up “waking
up” back into his life on earth.
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5. WHAT is diversity?
Quote
“The gun made a ripping sound like the
opening of the zipper on the fly of God
Almighty.”
Pg. 41 Ch. 2
Meaning
There are plenty of re-occurring themes
tied to religion and life‟s meaning
through time, space, and science. The
author tends to make a lot of jabbing
remarks about religious themes. This
includes making Billy have a “religious-
cliché” family life, and his son a rebel.
However inserting obviously anti-
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religious themes such as aliens and
“Alien or God” space-time travel through pseudo-
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6. WHY was it censored?
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“I wouldn‟t have any idea what was
meant by „free will.‟ I‟ve visited thirty-
one inhabited planets in the
universe, and I have studied reports on
one hundred more. Only on Earth is
there any talk of free will.”
Meaning
This can be considered “dangerous”
because it begins to make remarks
about the human race as something
that isn‟t a central system of life.
Meaning the author seems to make the
human race seem like only a small part
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7. HOW was it censored?
Quote
“Board members called the books “anti-
American, anti-Christian, anti-
Semitic, and just plain filthy.”
- 1982 Board of Education v. Pico trial
Meaning
The impression this book made on
schools in not only American but also
Jerusalem was that it was anti-religious
and cruel towards nationalism. A lot of
the content was also considered
inappropriate due to its sexual themes
and pseudo science themes. Mainly, this
was discarded from high schools
primarily based on a Christian influence
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in most public schools. Which later
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