Introduction Kurt Vonnegut as an author has defied the normal norms of storytelling and has been very successful at it. The use of fragmentation in slaughterhouse five has been a weapon he has used to good effect. It starts of as being confusing and chaotic but as it goes on you come to terms with it understanding it better. There are some things that remain to be answered and only Kurt Vonnegut can answer them. He is a person who has been affected by war in a big way. The trauma of war shows itself in a full-blown proportion in Slaughterhouse Five. The text on the whole is told in a period where, the central character Billy pilgrim comes u