The First Impression: Often the Truest One

Slaughterhouse Five gave me a very good first impression on this first reading. The author talks in a very interesting way, almost neurotic. When I saw that the character was going write a book about World War II the book got me more than it had already had. Of all the important events in history through mankind, the one event I´ve been especially attracted to is WWII it has always been of great interest to me because it pivoted the way the world was heading and made it take the path that it is today; it has been a very grand event in history.
Vonnegut starts talking from his point of view but then says “Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. I´ve changed all their names.” (p.1 Vonnegut). What has happened in this chapter is that the author tells the reader how he’s living as of now and starts talking to old friends by the phone when he’s drunk. I wonder if this drunkenness and his need to talk to old friends he has never seen since war has to do anything with post-traumatic stress of WW II, maybe it has a symbolism that represents his regrets for those times: the drunkenness represents regret and his calling friends issue may seem that he might share his regret.
As soon as Vonnegut called O’Hare and said “Listen, I’m writing this book about Dresden. I’d like some help remembering stuff. I wonder if I could come down and see you, and we could drink and talk and remember” I figured out this first chapter was going to be the story of the meet between the two of them and the rest of the book, the memoirs of them throughout the war. If my prediction is right I personally think it’s a very interesting way to right a book. These type of books that go back and forth in time are very interesting because they tell the story and then when return to the present they sort of analyze it.