In both pieces,
I find that stories that they provided in each of their piece were completely unrelated
to each other. IN Slaughter house five, every time when Billy closes his eyes,
he appeared in different places at different moments of his life, and each
event is separate and completely unrelated. Same here in the true war story,
the author gave entirely unrelated stories from his memories of the past to
serve as an example of his earlier statements.
However, even
though these stories do not connect, both authors provided great detail of each
stories. Such as the story where Billy was captured by the Germans, he saw the
image of Adam and eve in the commander’s boot. Same to the true war story,
details such as when the author was talking about the “crazy stuff”, he used
detailed story including quotes from different people, to capture the fuller
picture of the event.
From what I observed,
there is a purpose to each story that authors provided in each pieces, it
echoes with the opening statement of each section of the over story. I think in
Slaughter house five, the author is trying to give examples of free will in the
forms of his illusion throughout visiting moments of his life, also, he is
showing that he has every experience that people desire, such as war
experience, comrades, a stately home and wealth. For the true war story, one of
the objectives of the author is obvious to present war story the assumed correct
way, which is composed with the material that common people would think it is
too normal and easily ignored, and adding great detail, for the objective of
showing the audience what a true war story is like.
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