Kurt Vonnegut?s novel Slaughterhouse Five, represents a man?s desperate, yet, useless search for meaning in a senseless existence. Vonnegut uses a narrator, which is different from the main character to develop his theme. Vonnegut introduces Slaughterhouse Five in first person. In the second chapter, however, this narrator changes to a bystander. He wants the reader to realize that the narrator and Billy Pilgrim, the main character, are two different people. In order to …showed first 75 words of 703 total…

…showed last 75 words of 703 total…therefore, he could handle it with ease. On the other hand, when the Germans captured him, he was not ready for it. When this occurred, he was terrified. His fantasy had made the real experience only worse. Kurt Vonnegut?s Slaughterhouse Five suggests that a man cannot change his fate. Any attempts to change the past or the future are meaningless. Therefore, there is nothing to search for, and the search for meaning is useless.