Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade mixes degrees of autobiography, documentary, and fantasy in an attempt to produce a book about Dresden in the time period of World War II. The autobiographical aspect is apparent in the war scenes of the novel. And the documentary and the fantastic are demonstrated through a set of imaginary novels by Kilgore Trout and the main character, Billy Pilgrim. Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five in an endeavor to create "a masterpiece or at least make me a lot of money". However, the novel more successfully captures the surrealism of war and those who are engaged therein.…
