In six pages this paper discuses how the structure and narrative of this novel are reflected in the poem of Yon Yonson. Four other sources are cited in the bibliography.
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down the street, They say "Whats your name?" And I say, "My name is Yon Yonson, I work in Wisconsin...." (Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five 3). Introduction "On the title
page of Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut invites the reader to see the book as a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore" (Huber Trafamadorian Structure in
Slaughterhouse-Five). Vonnegut then presents us with the authors (narrators) discussion about the difficulties or problems associated with the writing. As an example he provides the poem provided above, a poem
that goes round and round in circles, never getting anywhere. And, in many ways that is the premise of much of his story, a story that seems to have no
beginning and no end, and never pretends to present the reader with anything differently than that truth. In the following paper we examine the narrative and structural form of Vonneguts
book, illustrating how it all seems to come back to the Yon Yonson poem. Slaughterhouse Five In better understanding how Vonneguts novel offers us the structure and narrative of
the story in the poem we look at critics and their interpretations of the structure and narrative of the story. One author notes that "Vonnegut, on the one hand, claims
that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricting the truth of the story" (Welling). In
this very simplistic examination of the elemental structure of the story we see that we will never find truth, and thus never really find an ending for the possibilities lead
to the facts which lead to the possibilities, an endless circle of analysis. We also note that "Vonnegut also calls his novel a failure. (p. 31) By depreciating his