Crash Course Literature - Season 2 Episode 12 Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden - Slaughterhouse-Five Part 1

Name: Crash Course Literature
Genre: Documentary
Released: 13 Feb 2018
Rating: 2.00
Cast: John Green

2018-02-13 United States of America 12 minutes.

2.00 1 votes

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4 Season 4 Nov 07, 2017

4 - 1

1984 by George Orwell, Part 1 Nov 07, 2017
4 - 2

George Orwell's 1984, Part 2 Nov 21, 2017
4 - 3

The Handmaid's Tale, Part 1 Nov 28, 2017
4 - 4

The Handmaid's Tale, Part 2 Dec 05, 2017
4 - 5

Candide Dec 13, 2017
4 - 6

The Parable of the Sower Dec 20, 2017
4 - 7

The Yellow Wallpaper Jan 10, 2018
4 - 8

To the Lighthouse Jan 16, 2018
4 - 9

Free Will, Witches, Murder, and Macbeth, Part 1 Jan 23, 2018
4 - 10

Gender, Guilt, and Fate - Macbeth, Part 2 Jan 30, 2018
4 - 11

Pride and Prejudice, Part 1 Feb 06, 2018
4 - 12

Liberals, Conservatives, and Pride and Prejudice, Part 2 Feb 13, 2018

3 Season 3 Jul 07, 2016

3 - 1

Their Eyes Were Watching God Jul 07, 2016
3 - 2

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Part 1 Jul 14, 2016
3 - 3

The Raft, the River, and The Weird Ending of Huckleberry Finn Jul 20, 2016
3 - 4

Shakespeare's Sonnets Jul 27, 2016
3 - 5

Lord of the Flies Aug 04, 2016
3 - 6

100 Years of Solitude Part 1 Aug 10, 2016
3 - 7

100 Years of Solitude Part 2 Aug 18, 2016
3 - 8

Invisible Man Aug 24, 2016
3 - 9

Sula Sep 08, 2016

2 Season 2 Feb 27, 2014

2 - 1

A Long and Difficult Journey, or The Odyssey Feb 27, 2014
2 - 2

Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex Mar 06, 2014
2 - 3

Ghosts, Murder, and More Murder - Hamlet Part 1 Mar 13, 2014
2 - 4

Ophelia, Gertrude, and Regicide - Hamlet Part Mar 20, 2014
2 - 5

Don't Reanimate Corpses! Frankenstein Part 1 Mar 27, 2014
2 - 6

Frankenstein, Part 2 Apr 03, 2014
2 - 7

Reader, it's Jane Eyre Apr 10, 2014
2 - 8

If One Finger Brought Oil - Things Fall Apart Part 1 Apr 17, 2014
2 - 9

Things Fall Apart, Part 2 Apr 24, 2014
2 - 10

To Kill a Mockingbird, Part 1 May 01, 2014
2 - 11

Race, Class, and Gender in To Kill a Mockingbird May 08, 2014
2 - 12

Aliens, Time Travel, and Dresden - Slaughterhouse-Five Part 1 May 15, 2014
2 - 13

PTSD and Alien Abduction - Slaughterhouse-Five Part 2 May 22, 2014
2 - 14

Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved May 29, 2014
2 - 15

Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance Jun 05, 2014
2 - 16

The Poetry of Sylvia Plath Jun 12, 2014

1 Season 1 Nov 15, 2012

1 - 1

How and Why We Read Nov 15, 2012
1 - 2

Of Pentameter & Bear Baiting - Romeo & Juliet Part I Nov 29, 2012
1 - 3

Love or Lust? Romeo and Juliet Part II Dec 06, 2012
1 - 4

Like Pale Gold - The Great Gatsby Part I Dec 13, 2012
1 - 5

Was Gatsby Great? The Great Gatsby Part 2 Dec 20, 2012
1 - 6

Language, Voice, and Holden Caulfield: The Catcher in the Rye Part 1 Jan 10, 2013
1 - 7

Holden, JD, and the Red Cap: The Catcher in the Rye Part 2 Jan 17, 2013
1 - 8

Before I Got My Eye Put Out - The Poetry of Emily Dickinson Jan 24, 2013

0 Season 0 May 30, 2013

0 - 1

Outtakes May 30, 2013

Overview

In which John Green teaches you about Kurt Vonnegut's most famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut wrote the book in the Vietnam era, and it closely mirrors his personal experiences in World War II, as long as you throw out the time travel and aliens and porn stars and stuff. Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran who was a prisoner of war, survived the Battle of the Bulge and the fire-bombing of Dresden, goes home after the war, and has trouble adapting to civilian life (this is the part that's like Vonnegut's own experience). Billy Pilgrim has flashbacks to the war that he interprets as being "unstuck in time." He believes he's been abducted by aliens, and pretty much loses it. You'll learn a little about Vonnegut's life, quite a bit about Dresden, and probably more than you'd like about barbershop quartets as a metaphor for post-traumatic stress.

Year 2018

Studio YouTube

Director

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Popularity 0.3229

Language English