Slaughterhouse 5 summary
The book Slaughterhouse Five has a bizarre and twisted plot that reverts back and forththrough time. The main character Billy Pilgrim was involved in World War II and was mentallydisturbed by the bombings of Dresden thus alluding to a state of being "unstuck in time". TheDresden bombings was an air raid by American and British air bombers that was an unnecessarymilitary operation. The bombings killed mostly civilians, around 130,000 people died anddestroyed 80% of the city. Most of the victims of the bombings died of either incineration or thesuffocation by the flames engulfing all oxygen available. Billy Pilgrim survived the bombingsbecause he was captured at Battle of the Bulge by the Germans and held captive in a meat locker Vonnegut opens the book by fooling the readers to read the prefix, ooh he's so tricky. Hetalks to an old friend about the bombings of Dresden. His friends wife gets all worked up becauseshe is German and believes it was the Germans fault. Vonnegut assures her he will only writebout good things and tells her he's going to name his book "The Children's Crusade". In the 2ndchapter we finally meet the main character Billy Pil
He ison a train with Weary, Weary dies of gangrene is his feet. Billy flashes back and forth through time from warback to the plane. His wifeValencia goes crazy with grief. His bed is next to EliotRosewaters, who like Billy has little love for life because of things he experienced in the war. Billy Pilgrim is "unstuck in time", whichmeans you can revert to any time of your life and live it. People think he is a vegetable when he is just thinking about Tramalfadorians and timetravel. Billy thinkshe has been abducted by the Tramalfadroians and taken to their planet where he was a subject ofmany scientific experiments. They are forced to strip naked,Billy's body is small and weak and German soldiers make fun of him. Billy goes back to theTramalfadorian spaceship and asks if the Tramalfadorians believe in free will. Billysees the German troops kill a civilian and take his things, including the mans porno. When his father took him to the YMCA and tried to teach himto swim by the sink or swim method. He says Chicago will be bombed with hydrogenbombs. And Billy will be shot in the back of the head with a High powered laser gun. Billy then goes to the time whenhe visited the grand canyon as a kid.
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