1. What actually happened in Dresden? To what use does Vonnegut put these events in his story? What views of America can we see in the novel? Is Vonnegut endorsing one or more of them? 2. The book begins "All this happened, more or less." Why does the novel begin with a metanarrative chapter describing the author’s life and the process of writing the novel, instead of beginning "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time"?
3. Why does Vonnegut introduce the Tralfamadorians? That is, why did he make his "famous Dresden book" into science fiction? Does the character of Kilgore Trout help us understand this?
4. Why is the novel so fragmented? How does this structure contribute to the meaning of the story?
5. What is the point of the refrain "so it goes"? Why is it repeated so often through the novel?
6. What role does the act of reading play in the novel?

Which kind of bias is evident in the sentence below? " along with bears, lynxes and wolves, boars were idiotically hunted to extinction in the middle ages." a subjective vocabulary/ mistreatment of opposing views/ corporate bias/ stereotypes

The perimeter of a picture frame is 24 inches. if the width of the picture frame is 5 inches, what is the length of the picture frame?

Read this excerpt from "the light of gandhi's lamp" by hilary kromberg inglis, in which she describes driving to the police station where her sister is being detained. to avoid looking at the blackened windows at the top of the building and thinking about the history of who had died or been tortured there, i always looked instead at the little chinese restaurant on the opposite side of the road. how does this passage affect the text? it conveys, with great subtlety, the conflict she felt over having a sister who would break the law and end up in the custody of the police. it conveys, without any implied moral judgment, that those who fought against apartheid considered themselves to be soldiers in a just war. it conveys, with an extended metaphor, the idea that being detained by the police in this society was regarded as a badge of honor. it conveys, with direct language, the view held by many anti-apartheid activists that the police often acted in brutal and unlawful ways.