Question

Three adjectives to describe Vonnegut’s life and why:

Answer 1

Adjectives to describe Vonnegut's Life and why:

1) Rootless. Kurt Vonnegut's family came to the U.S. from Germany, both of his partents were fluent german speakers, but because of ant-German sentiment in America before, during and after WW 1, they chose not to teach the language nor the culture to little Kurt. This made him feel "ignorant and rootless".

2)Brave. Vonnegut left the University of Cornell to enroll in the army. He was sent off to the European theater of WW 2,  where he was captured by the Germans and survived the allied bombing of Dresden as a POW. He was awarded a purple heart.

3)Enduring. Kurt Vonnegut really struggled as a writer, he wrote five novels before the succes of Slaugherhouse-Five, for years he had trouble making ends meet, looking after not only his three children, but his orphaned nephews as well, yet he endured and kept writing.

Adjectives to describe Vonnegut's Work and why:

1) Comical. Vonnegut's work is, in general, very humoristic. Despite its philosphical, social and psychological depth, Kut's novels and short stories maintain a rahter unsolemn, funny side, he never fails to make you grin at least.

2)Uncommon. Kurt Vonnegut's body of work is far from ordinary. Taking his most succesful novel alone, Slaughterhouse Five, can't be described as a common war novel, the way the story is told and develops, the theme, the jumps in time through the narrative, the peculiar views on different subjects, like time. This novel is far from common.