Slaughterhouse-Five vs. Gulliver's Travel

There were two big similarities that I found in Gulliver's Travel and in Slaughterhouse-Five. Both the main characters in the story wanted to change the society they live in and both were unhappy in their current situation. In the book Gulliver's Travel the main character detests his people and admires the Houyhnhnms whom he finds very superior to his own kind. The Main character in Slaughterhouse-Five admires the Tralfamadorians and wants to change the "earthling" way of thinking because of all his experiences with sophisticated Tralfamadorians. Billy finds the human race unsophisticated and naive compared to the Tralfamadorians. Also both are unhappy, the author of Gulliver's Travel hates his people and has been banished from the ones he loves and admires. Billy has had an unfulfilling and uneventful life, he has been lonely most of his years and doesn't value his life, neither does the narrator from Gulliver's Travel.

Both stories also have imaginary places and people. In Slaughterhouse-Five there are aliens or Tralfamadorians and their planet Tralfamadore. In Gulliver's Travels there are imaginary places like countries that no one has heard of and strange creatures like the Yahoos, the Houyhnhnms, the Asses. We have no idea what species they are either and the creatures in Slaughterhouse-Five and in Gullivers travel are somewhat left to the readers imagination. Lastly in both books the characters go to places where they are seen as strange or unsophisticated creatures which influences their reasons as to why they want to change, to become a more advanced individual.

Other than these few similarities I find the two stories very difficult to connect because they are so different, structurally, the content, and the themes. I found Gulliver's Travel very confusing because of all the strange characters and terms, that there may have been some information linking the two books that I may have missed. Overall I prefered Slaughterhouse-Five because it was more straigh forward and was a more enjoyable read.