Every person living their life has studied their own existence in one form or another. Breaking down our own reality is part of who we are as humans and helps us understand who we are and why we are here. Each person has their own way of arriving at a certain understanding of themselves, which is again another defining element of who we are. Kurt Vonnegut, a writer famous for trying to explain the unexplained, chose to show the story of a man examining his own reality by having the main character, Billy Pilgrim, become "unstuck" in time . This ability helps him understand why things happen in the future, before seeing them in his own past. Dave Eggars, the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, observes the importance of living life to the fullest and taking every chance life offers you and how failing to do so could lead you to an unfulfilling life. Both of these works support Socrates' thought that "the unexamined life is not worth living" from the protagonists' perspective on their own existence. Slaughterhouse-5 is a novel explaining a man's journey through his life while...