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Banned in Zion—Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse Five.’
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Billy Pilgrim is at it again. He got unstuck in time and, well, that's just pornographic, according to the saints at the Washington County School District. And you know what that means: Slaughterhouse-Five is banned in Utah schools. (Maybe that will pique young people to seek out the 1969 fiction classic.)
Captured by the German Army during World War II, Billy Pilgrim and his fellow prisoners of war are held in an empty slaughterhouse in Dresden and forced to bury the dead. The U.S. firebombing of the German city leads to psychological trauma for our protagonist.
After the war, Billy claims to…
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