Slaughterhouse Five

Slaughterhouse-Five is a story of a man, Billy Pilgrim, who every once in a while will become “travel in time”. The book itself is written as an anti-war book with many references to Dresden and the carpet bombings held there. This book has been on the topic of being banned since its release in 1969. It has been banned on sexual, language and social concerns in the book, but has never been banned over a wide area or more than just a little town. This shows that Slaughterhouse-five should not be banned and not only read but part of the curriculum in the High Schools around the country.

Slaughterhouse-five does have a lot of vulgarity and sexual references in it but one has to remember that it is still just a book. “Shit. What do you know? What the hell they teach in college?” ch. 2 This book was usually banned in middle school and high school age schools because of its language and vulgarity. But not only language is why people think it should be banned but also ...