Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores
1. Create a thesis statement
2 Put more thought into my points
3. learn how to improve my illustirations
4. effectivlty explain why my quotes connect with my thesis
5. make sure all my quotes make sense with the thesis
6. effectivly bring my readers into my essay
7. supporting my thesis throughout all 3 of my body paragraphs
8. finding quotes throught out the book, not just trying to connect them together
9. make my conclusion sum up my essay
10. restate the thesis different than before.
Please write any 15 thoughts about the book Slaughterhouse-5. For each thought, please refer to a specific part of the book that generated this thought (for instance, “It was funny” receives no credit; “It was funny when he described the Tralfamadorians” receives full credit).
1. I thought that when he was standing on the brigde getting shot at was very surrendering.
2. It was disgusting when all of the men were vomitting in the bathroom
3. It was sexual when he discribed the shafts and tips of the tralfamadorians
4. It was weird when the home of the humans on tralfamadore was all fake
5. It was immature when the guys in the bookstore were saying the good stuff was in the back refering to the pornography
6. It was ironic how his feet were ivory and blue in both his basement and at war.
7. It was unbelievable when the tralfamadorians new how the world would end and when.
8. It was genius for the tralfamadorians to see time as a demension like lenght
9. it was disgusting how the germans descibed the dead bodies underground.
10. it was ironic how billys wife was eating a 3 muskateers bar in the hospital because of the pack he was ijn during the war
11. it was shocking that billy knew when he was going to die but didnt do anything about it.
12. it was akward that the tralfamadorians wanted billy and montana to have sexual intercourse
13. it was strange how the tralfamadorians think there are 5 different sexes that create a newborn
14. it was releiving when the americans could work as normal people while they were under captive control of the germans
15. i thought it was shocking how an american could change to become a natzi during this time of war.
State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.
1. you cant change your path in life.
2.life is like a mountain range has a start and end but is always moving
3. time is another dimension
4. you can change the future
5. sex is all around us
Write a conversation between yourself and Billy Pilgrim in which he tries to teach you a lesson based on his own experiences. You must explain IN DEPTH at least 3 specific events and details from the book in order to receive full credit. This conversation should go on as long as it takes to demonstrate YOUR UNDERSTANDING of Billy’s experiences.
Billy: Hey Timmy
Me: Whats up Billy-Boy
Billy: Have you timed traveled recently to Tralfamadore?
Me: No... What the hell is that?
Billy: Its a planet where they can see time as another dimension.
Me: Sounds like a dream place bro..
Billy: No! it truly is a place it taught me that you cant change your path of life and that it is set.
Me: thats impossible you can always change the future depending on what you do!
Billy: Nope. When I traveled back in time to when I was abducted by aliens I knew i was going to be abducted but I could change anything about it.
Me: Yeah you could have you could have like not gone to your house that night or something.
Billy: Tis' true. however When i was in the war at dresden I knew that there was bombings going to happen. i could have told the villagers and I could have saved there lives but I didn't and could because it was going to happen for a reason.
Me: Billy your one sick man... you could have gotten a purple heart but you didn't.
Billy: I know but like I told you you can change things you have a path.
Me: Im Still not convinced bra
Billy: Well there was this one great school teacher I was with during the war. I had traveled throughout time to see him being killed in a shooting but i didn't say anything to him because it was his destiny to be shot there i couldn't have changed that for him or for me.
Me: Wow inspiring. Well I got to go my mom is waiting outside for me. peace out
Billy: So long My friend.
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