Early in the novel, the reader is introduced to Billy's father. ... His father was going to throw Billy into the deep end, and Billy was going to damn well swim " (Vonnegut 55). The reader learns that Billy's childhood life is filled with abuse and his father does not care or love him at all. When Billy is young he does not have a good father figure or role model to look up to. ... His father who abused him, the fire-bombing of Dresden, the planet of Tralfamadore, and the Veteran's Mental Hospital cause Billy Pilgrim to change the way he views the world multiple times. ...

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Pilgrim's life is hard to keep up with, for in it are many journeys. ... For instance, when he was a child, Pilgrim's father tossed him into the deep end of the pool. ... Pilgrim watched a war movie in reverse motion. ... Pilgrim seemed to know that the boy was there out of ignorance. ... Pilgrim never wanted to go to war. ...

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Many of the pilgrims are simply there for an easy way out, not religious devotion. ... The impious pilgrims will stop at nothing to reach their precious four churches. ... Father Shapiro doesn't not represent what one would perceive to be a typical Catholic priest. ... When given the opportunity to help pilgrims Father Shapiro offers them a T-shirt rather than comfort. ... Interview of over 2 thousand pilgrims the Elijah project aired their segments on big screen television having no regard for the pilgrims and the lives that it may have destroyed. ...

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This phrase shows up whenever the character Billy Pilgrim encounters death. ... The phrase "so it goes" is very important and is seen through Billy Pilgrim, Kurt Vonnegut, and the overall theme of the book is based on it. To help understand the phrase "so it goes", what it means, and why the character Billy Pilgrim uses it every time someone dies, we must first understand the character Billy Pilgrim. ... We are told that when Billy was a child his father teaches him how to swim by using the sink or swim method and throws Billy in the pool, and Billy as expected, sinks. ... Vonnegut was i...

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The novel is about the life and times of a World War 2 veteran named Billy Pilgrim. ... The novel is broke down into two parts, Vonnegut's story about the novel and the life story of Billy Pilgrim. The life story of Billy Pilgrim, which is presented as a series of episodes with no chronological order. ... (Vonnegut 23) The reader learns thatthe things Billy Pilgrim? ... the future before it happens, he knows that he is only marrying her to get funding from her father to start his own company. ...

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According to Shiite tradition, on the 40th day after his death his son, Ali ibn Hussein, returned his father's head to his body, and it was buried with his body in Karbala. ... People who earn six dollars a day opened their homes to passing pilgrims and offered them food. ... "My father is too old to walk," he said. ... Both Sunnis and Shiites, both pilgrims and those who were serving them, had died here. ... That night I couldn't find a hotel room; Iranian and Pakistani pilgrims had booked nearly every one. ...

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We keep this in the back of our minds as we read about Billy Pilgrim's life. ... Should we trust his sensible daughter, who thinks that her father is losing his marbles? ... But Billy Pilgrim's time tripping lets him see what they are like. ... Instead, we get small descriptions of Billy Pilgrims from different moments in time. ... Billy Pilgrim has finally got it, but it has come at a high price. ...

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Vonnegut's father and grandfather had both attended MIT before become architects at their company. ... The next well-known book Vonnegut wrote is "Slaughterhouse-Five," which follows the main character, Billy Pilgrim, as he suffers through flashbacks. However, Pilgrim believes that because he was in an alien zoo for a time, he is now time travelling. As the story progresses, bouncing from time to time, stories of Pilgrim's time in Dresden are shared, as well as some stories from Pilgrim's "future,"" an unlikely 1976. Following the stories, it becomes apparent how Pilgrim's ...

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Plymouth Colony was established by Pilgrims in what is now modern-day Massachusetts. ... Unlike the Pilgrims, however, the Puritans did believe that the Anglican Church was the true church. ... George Calvert's son, Cecilius, became Maryland's first proprietor due to his father's death. ... Cecilius Calvert followed through on his father's wishes, and he abetted that Catholics and Protestants use the same chapel for worship. ... Fortuitously, King Charles II owed a huge debt to William Penn's father. ...

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There are three components to Billy's story: his time in Germany, his time as a husband and father, and his time on Trafalmadore. ... It's clear that Billy's emotional response to tragic events (the death of his father, wife, and a plane full of optometrists) is muted at best, as his catch phrase throughout the entire novel is "so it goes". ... Pilgrim's Progress. ... ...

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There are three components to Billy's story: his time in Germany, his time as a husband and father, and his time on Trafalmadore. ... It's clear that Billy's emotional response to tragic events (the death of his father, wife, and a plane full of optometrists) is muted at best, as his catch phrase throughout the entire novel is "so it goes". ... Pilgrim's Progress. ... ...

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It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England). The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury. Chaucer's intention was that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way back. ... The Squire personifies all the courtly chivalric qualities which his father does not expose. ... The Squire is a striking contrast to his father. ...

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In Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval poem, The Canterbury Tales, the knight is the first pilgrim described in the General Prologue and the first to proclaim his tale. ... Chaucer is also known as the "father of English poetry", for who so passionately loved his literature, made his love his work, and his work his last breath. ... Every pilgrim was honored to be in the presence of the knight, for they valued so much his humble and wise example. ... The knight's portrait "contrasts to the other pilgrims, as his focus was on morality, rather than physical appearance (Rossignol198)." ...

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Massachusetts was founded by the pilgrims when they landed in Plymouth. ... The Pilgrims, in Plymouth, established the idea of a Patriarchy, where the father was the head of the household. Because the Bible stated this idea and the Pilgrims enforced it, it has been used for many years. ...

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut I.Character List Billy Pilgrim - The main character of the novel. ... O'Hare - A prisoner of war who was also a private and infantry scout as Billy Pilgrim was. ... She believes her father has gone crazy after his plane crash, head injury, and brain surgery. ... Billy's daughter holds him responsible for giving her father strange ideas. ... The climax occurs when Billy Pilgrim is killed. ...

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Throughout Slaughterhouse-Five, both the narrator and Billy Pilgrim treat death as a tragic, yet inevitable, aspect of human life. ... Billy Pilgrim has the same attitude toward death, even before he meets the Tralfamadorians and becomes accustomed to their philosophies on life and death. ... He is with his father at the YMCA. His father throws him into the deep end of the pool to learn how to swim. ... Before his father throws him in the pool, Billy is terrified. ...

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Weary dies and for some reason blames Billy, making sure that everyone in the boxcar knows the name Billy Pilgrim. ... Her father, a wealthy owner of the Ilium School of Optometry, pressures Billy to marry "ugly Valencia". ... His father was going to throw Billy into the deep end, and Billy was going to damn well swim." ... Billy was numb as his father carried him from the shower room to the pool. ... (pgs.43-44) Billy's father threw young Billy into the YMCA pool to teach him how to swim. ...

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Due to Billy Pilgrim's uncontrollable time-traveling, chronology is almost nonexistent. ... During this, Billy travels through extreme moments of his life such as the violet light of death, the red bubbling of pre-birth, and when his father threw him into the Y.M.C.A pool. ... For example, he tells the reader that a specific event would make a good epitaph for Billy Pilgrim. ... Billy Pilgrim is the main and obvious surrogate for Vonnegut in this novel. ... Another time he puts a surrogate in the book is when Billy Pilgrim is drunk dialed. ...

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The main character, Billy Pilgrim, is a member of several of these communities and plays a drastically different role in each one. ... Billy Pilgrim was born in the town of Ilium, New York. ... After they are married, Billy is put in charge of a successful optometry practice, but receives little help from Valencia's father. ...

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Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is about twenty-nine pilgrims who join Chaucer on a pilgrimage to Canterbury to the shrine of Saint Thomas A. ... Although the Knight is the Squire's father, their personalities, appearances, and reasons for going on the pilgrimage are completely opposite. ... Despite the fact that they are father and son, the Knight and the Squire are truly separate individuals. ...

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Grace's accident on her horse Pilgrim changed her life forever. ... She directs this comment towards Grace's father Robert Maclean who seems to want to help Grace every time she's in distress. ... Grace matures on the spot when she visits pilgrim. ... She utters those words to her father when she realizes how hurt her horse is. ...

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Grace's accident on her horse Pilgrim changed her life forever. ... She directs this comment towards Grace's father Robert Maclean who seems to want to help Grace every time she's in distress. ... Grace matures on the spot when she visits pilgrim. ... She utters those words to her father when she realizes how hurt her horse is. ...

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The Pilgrims were separatists. 4. ... The Separatists became known as the Pilgrims. ... - The Pilgrims went ashore and stepped out onto the Plymouth Rock... He taught the Pilgrims to live off the land by fishing and hunting. ... - Penn inherited his father possessions, among which was a debt of the king. ...

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As Latin is the language of the Bible and the church fathers, students were taught the ability to read, write and think in that foreign language (Lynch, 1992:152). ... Any one would be welcomed to the monastery by the monks, particularly to other Christian and to pilgrim. ... The guests were given water to wash hands and feet by the head of the monastery and there would be special care for the poor and the pilgrims (St Benedict Rule Extract Chapter LIII 1-6), this reflected that poor and the pilgrims were actually given equality too. The guest were well looked after and they were usually pilgr...

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For example: Bryson states: " The one thing the Pilgrims certainly didn't do was step ashore on Plymouth Rock. ... If the Pilgrims even noticed Plymouth Rock, there is no sign of it,"" (2). ... This poem, in Made in America, entitled "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers- begins: The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant branches toss'd And the heavy night hung dark The hills and water o'er, When a band of exiles moor'd their bark On the wild New England shore. (1) ...

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