Slaughter house 5

?We had been foolish virgins in the war right at the end of childhood? Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut ?The children?s crusade started in 1213 when two monks got the idea of raising armies of children in France and Germany, and selling them in North Africa as slaves. Thirty thousand children volunteered thinking they were going to Palestine. (p.16) The Children?s Crusade and the World Wars are similar because of the drafting of the innocent to do the duties of a nation.
The children who volunteered were the ?idle and deserted children who generally swarm in great cities, nurtured on vice and daring,? they thought they were going to Palestine but really they were being sold as slaves. Children are naive and very gullible, trusting in the words of the adults around them. They also believe that they have a grasp on their lives and control of the obstacles in life one discovers through experience when, in reality they have exactly the opposite. The young who......

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Title: Slaughterhouse Five
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