As you already know the title of the book I am reading is Slaughterhouse-five. On page 152 of chapter 6 we find out why. "The Americans were taken to the fifth building inside the gate. It was a one-story cement-block cube with sliding doors in front and back. It had been built as a shelter for pigs about to be butchered. Now it was going to serve as a home away from home for one hundred American prisoners of war." "There was a big number over the door of the building. The number was five. Before the Americans could go inside, their only English-speaking guard told them to memorize their simple address, in case they got lost in the big city. Their address was this: "Schlachthof-funf."
This is obviously the reason for the title of the book. The main character Billy was housed in this slaughterhouse for the majority of his time in Dresden along with when the actual bombing of Dresden occured. If I were to choose a title I would have chosen the same thing because the main plot to the story is how the bombings affected Billy and how he was going to write a book about it. What better title than the place in which he was when he experienced this awful massacre of people-Slaughterhouse-Five.
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