Kurt Vonnegut\u27s Slaughterhouse-Five: Making the Past Present

Art has the unique ability to create new meaning from past events. As a work of literature, Kurt Vonnegut\u27s Slaughterhouse-Five has succeeded in doing this. Vonnegut took the bombing of Dresden and make it present and relevant in the minds of young Americans during the Vietnam War. Readers made connections between the two horrific events. In our contemporary world, Slaughterhouse-Five still remains an important work of literature. Violent conflicts and horrors continue to happen as with the recent Iraq War