Slaughterhouse blogging assignment

Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores

1.        more time                                   6. more instructuons
2         analyeze  info better                    7 better questions
3.        better quotes                              8.better book
4.        understand main points                9.more descrpitive
5.        use more resources                    10.better scructure


Please write any 15 thoughts about the book Slaughterhouse-5.  For each thought, please refer to a specific part of the book that generated this thought (for instance, “It was funny” receives no credit; “It was funny when he described the Tralfamadorians” receives full credit).

1. It was sad when Dresden was bombed to bits

2. It was weird when Valencia died going to the hospital to see billy

3. The author organized a book in a intresting and new way

4.It was funny when the Transfamadorians put billy in a cage

5. Kilgore trouts books had some intresting ideas in them

6.When the author says "so it goes" a lot it got boring

7. It was funny when billy got kicked off the radio station for talking about the aliens

8. It is intresting that the book is called slaughterhouse-5 when it barley has anything to do with the story

9. It weird when the author said billy was unstuck in time because it doesn't make any sense

10. it was suprising that aliens and only people have "free will"

11.It was sad when the americans treated the british people bad when they were being so nice

12.It was crazy how many near death expeirneces billy had

13. It was amazing when the aliens could see a 4th dimension

14. It was frustrating how no event was described very well

15. it was unique how billy is the only one that could see these events


State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.
1. Death is just the begining

2. we live on for ever

3.  Transfamadorians are peaceful

4. War can be a brutal place

5. Billy is useless


Write a conversation between yourself and Billy Pilgrim in which he tries to teach you a lesson based on his own experiences.  You must explain IN DEPTH at least 3 specific events and details from the book in order to receive full credit.  This conversation should go on as long as it takes to demonstrate YOUR UNDERSTANDING of Billy’s experiences.
EXAMPLE:
Billy: Hello, Mr. Cheng
Mr. Cheng: Hi Billy
Billy: Have you heard about Tralfamadore?
Mr. Cheng: No, what’s that?
Billy: It’s a planet where they... etc.

B Hi
J Hey
B Have you heard of the 4th dimsension
J No are you crazy?
B There is many other things in it the big one is time
J cool but i still dont believe you
B Oh well have you heard of the Dresden bombings
J no I haven't
B I was there when it happened, the place looked like the moon
J were you scared
B not really ive seen a lot
J did a lot of people die?
B Yes 150,000 died
J Thats sad, but thats war
B Yeah it can be horrible
J Have you ever been to New York?
B yes i have been there I went on the radio
J Really what did you say?
B I talked about the Transfamadorians
J the who?
B they are aliens, they caputred me one time
J your kinda weird man, im gonna leave now
B bye good talking to ya