Breakfast of Champions

I started reading the Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. I'm not to far in, only about 26 or so pages. But I have come to realize that this is a very wide topic book. We've talked about America and American symbols as "flag dipping". And so you know that is where you bring the flag down the pole and back up a bit. It was a sign of respect and a way to say hi. They also talked about the pyramid on the dollar bill, and how that is a clue. And they mentioned how the president didn't know what that was there for.

After they got off that subject, the book stated getting a little bit sexual content. They explained in an innopropiate way how babys were made. They talked alot about the pornography that was used as an wide-open beaver. This is where a female get unclothed, and opens her legs and lets a picture get snapped. In this book that was very popular. than they proceeded to talk about womens under garments. and how as time went on and they started to change them, they got less attractive.

this book realy dont have much worth talking about yet. I would have thought to see this book banned from schools which tells me this book get more interesting as it goes on. I am going to stop this post for now. If you have any questions just place a comment and I will post and answer on my next blog for BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS

Slaughterhouse Five continued...

what got me on a certain page(s) is that when one of the first times he actually went back in time to World War 2 and he was traveling with the three musketeers they were not really the three musketeers two of them where scouts and on of them was a guy named Weary. They started to walk on a path that was covered in snow and they were very cold and they were getting shot by Germans and they all went down to the side except for Billy he just stood there waiting to see there second shot on him but of course they missed him and he was eventually dragged down to the side by Weary telling him that he was out of his mind standing out there like an idiot. they stayed down on the side of the path until the Germans were done firing and Billy will not get up and telling Weary to go on with out him, and crap like that and the scouts went on without Billy and Weary, Weary started to hit Billy you know like punching and kicking him as much as he could and they did not know that they were getting watched by German soldiers wondering why two Americans would fight amongst themselves. When Billy and Weary finally noticed that the Germans were watching them the two scouts had been shot, the two were going to flank the Germans but were cought and shot down dying while the two idiots fighting were staring at the three Germans watching them. By the time they stopped fighting the Germans went to get them and take there stuff, ther was a General and there was a older man and two teenagers they had blond hair and blue eyes. After the two were captured Weary hated Billy after that for one they didn't go when they were supossed to and for two they don't have their boots any more because the Germans were wearing them and everything else that was on their person.



They ended up meeting up with other American soldiers you know prisoners of war but these people were captured because they ran into an up the trees to get away from the tank that the Germans had and either they get blasted out of the trees or they get captured. when all the prisoners of war were grouped together they got to a check point with a little building and Billy went to sleep and time traveled again.

Slaughter house five

This book is really weird I mean that there is somethings that you will understand to a certain part and then you will get confused and have to figure out what the guy is trying to say.

Well anyway...

at the beginning like in chapter one is just explaining about the book basically so I'm not really going to talk much about that. The second chapter, you get to meet the main character that goes in time a lot. It explains on how easy he can go in time like he would be asleep a senile widower and when he wakes up on his wedding day, he would walk through a door in 1955 and come out in another one in 1941 and stuff like that. which just because of that makes the book weird already there isn't really a normal moment about this book.

Billy was in world war two and he is an optometrist when the war is over and in this book you can go from the war and end up time traveling to him working, or married, or death. Anyway, billy was engaged to the daughter of the owner of Ilium school. He collapse's and ends up being treated in the verteins hosptial. Billy really wanted to be in optometery and since a important person that owns it and he knows him apparently made him want to go even more. Billy is rich and has two kids Barbra and Robert. Robert was having trouble in high school until he joined the green berets and he became a good person.

Him and a bunch of other optometrists were on a plane and it crashed, he ended up in the Vermont hospital and his wife died by carbon monoxide poisoning "so it goes" that is one of the times he goes back in time and the whole so it goes thing the author says it a lot in this book, I mean he says it so many times in this book it gets kind of annoying and you would not care if he said that after a while but the thing is, is that he uses it less at the end of the book.

After the plane crash he ends up going home with a crossed scar on his head and the starts talking about going to a alien planet called Tralfamadore and, it ends up being on the paper and he talks about him being in a zoo for the aliens to enjoy and things like that and it freaks out his daughter because he never started to talk about it before he got into a plane crash. but apparently it was true becase he was able to go back in time to those memories or something like that. But know one so far belives that he can, he really didn't say anything about time travel to anyone.