Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote Slaughter House Five, in revolt against all wars. The novel can
             be divided into several distinct stories all combined to convey one theme. The major theme
             focuses around the central character of Billy Pilgrim before, during, and after the war.
             Vonnegut himself plays a major role in the novel as narrator and witness of World War II.
             The difficulties Vonnegut had in the writing of the actual novel are also examined in the
             novel. All of these issues revolve around the main theme, "the shock and outrage over the
             havoc and destruction man is capable of wreaking in the name of what he labels a worthy
             cause (Schatt 84)." Vonnegut had tremendous difficulty writing this novel. He says, "I
             thought it would be easy for me to write about the destruction of Dresden, since all I
             would have to do would be to report what I had seen (Vonnegut 2)." He did not count on
             his emotions getting in the way with his attempts of doing this. It took Vonnegut twenty
             years to directly face his private demon of the firebombing of Dresden in the form of this
             novel (Lundquist 48). He had trouble recalling any memories of importance about his time
             in Dresden. In order for Vonnegut to write his Dresden novel, he had to find a way to not
             glorify the effects of war. After twenty years of struggle, he finally found a way to do that
             by making a fictional character, Billy Pilgrim, and making this character somewhat
             psychotic. He made Pilgrim imagine a dream world in which he learned all new concepts
             of time. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s usage of time in his novel, Slaughterhouse Five is an ironic
             jump from past, to present, to the dream world of Tralfalmadore, as he tells the story of
             the fictional character, Billy Pilgrim.
             It was not until Vonnegut returned to the sight of the bombing twenty years later,
             along with one of his war buddies, that he was able to recall the humorous and horrific...