Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Follow up to Slaughterhouse-Five Socratic seminar

Please choose at least 3 questions below and elaborate.  You may also respond to something that was said during the seminar, expand on something you already said in seminar, or respond to what has been written in this space.  How much you enjoy your grade is directly correlated to how much effort you put into this.

Possible questions:

  • How in control of our lives are we?
  • Billy Pilgrim is a hero, a victim, or what?
  • Is peace possible?
  • Did KV succeed in bearing witness to the bombing of Dresden by using the unorthodox structure he chose?  Why/why not?
  • Where on the spectrum of "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" and "So it goes" do you fall?
  • Poo-tee-weet?  (Since nobody touched that one in either class today, I will be especially excited to see answers to that one.)