Process-Writing Prompts for SL5

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Bryan

Spend half your time & 750 words on writing about SL5 to prepare for conversation; spend the other half working on your upcoming essay.

As requested by one of my classes, I’ve held back a few prompts so you can feel surprised when new questions come up during conversation. We’ll see how that goes. Happy writing!

Fatalism-Fight or Shrug?

Do you think Vonnegut really believes that “there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers?” Why do you (or why don’t you) believe him? If he DOES believe that, why did he bother writing this book?

“Now, when I hear myself say that someone is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is, ‘So it goes.’”

Should we take that kind of fatalism as a reasonable stance, or as the absurd musings of a lunatic?

Religion

What connections are drawn between religion and war, both in the children’s crusade and Billy’s war? How does this connect to the larger ideas in the book?

Evil and Evildoers

“You know,” Vonnegut’s father said to him, “you never wrote a story with a villain in it.” Does this book have a villain? Does it feature evil? If there is no villain, who or what is creating the evil?

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52 Responses to Process-Writing Prompts for SL5

  3. christian griggs-drane says:
    February 15, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    http://750words.com/entries/share/570297

    So sorry that im now submitting this but have been in bed for the last 2 days with bronchitis and am now able to do some work. Please let me know if you have any questions.

    Thank you
    Christian

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  4. Josh Kagenski says:
    February 14, 2011 at 6:39 pm

    http://750words.com/entries/share/567570
    I hope this isn’t too late I completely forgot to put this up.

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  14. Conor J. Owens says:
    February 14, 2011 at 11:35 am

    http://750words.com/entries/share/566268

    Wherever you go, there you are.

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  48. Anna Coucke says:
    February 13, 2011 at 11:46 am

    http://www.750words.com/entries/stats/564413
    Had some technical difficulties, which is why it took me longer than usual…it kept skipping lines when I was about halfway through a sentence.

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  49. Katie Wachel says:
    February 13, 2011 at 10:47 am

    http://www.750words.com/entries/share/564305

    Something was wrong the timer, it took me much longer than 22 minutes to write this!

    Reply

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