I have to admit that my American Novel class has by and large been the best literature class I've taken so far at BYU, mostly because I actually get to read books and not just inane poems that have no real influence on my intellect.We have already read several books for this class, but this past week we just finished Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. I was all about this book, and didn't have any trouble motivating myself to finish it in time to talk about the passages for class each day.
My favorite thing about the book is the character of Billy Pilgrim who seems to think that he was abducted by an alien race known as the Tralfamadorians. These aliens just so happen to look like a toilet plunger with small hands at the top of the plunger handle and eyes in the palm of the hand. Strange? Yes. Excellent book? Yes. Would I read it again? Definitely.
I don't often get excited about reading the "classics" as often I find them mind-numbing or boring, but this one was an exception. We have to write a 5-7 page paper about one of the four books we've read so far this semester and I've decided to write mine on Slaughterhouse Five because I actually understood what was going on and could more easily see the "deeper meaning" behind the words so to speak.
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