Schlachtof Eins

ACTIVE READING NOTES
CHAPTER 1:
1) Vennegut is the main character.
2) he served during world war 2.
3) he was a prisoner of war in eastern Germany during the firebombing of Dresden.
4) he has an old war buddy names Bernard V. O' Hare.
5) in 1967 the both of them returned to Dresden with the funding from the Guggenheim foundation.
6) Vonnegut dedicates Slaughterhouse Five to Gerhard Muller (the can driver they met on there way to Dresden) and O'Hare's wife.
7) it takes Vonnegut so long to write about Dresden because "there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre".
8) he learns that the Dresden's destruction is still classified as top secret according to the U.S. Air Force.