... , including the pornographic picture, which the two old men grin about, and Weary's boots. The fifteen-year old gets Weary's boots, and Weary gets the boy's clogs. Weary and Billy are made to march a long distance to a cottage where American POWs are being detained. The soldiers there say nothing. Billy falls ... into Germany, being filmed by the Germans who want a record of their great victory. Weary's feet are sore and bloody from marching on the German boy's clogs. The Americans are sorted by rank, and a colonel tries to talk with Billy. The colonel is dying; he tries to be friendly w...

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• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

... others and has little will to continue. He swings through the extremes of his life: the violet light of death, the red light of pre-birth. Then he is a small boy being thrown into the deep end of the YMCA swimming pool by his father, a proponent of the "sink or swim" method. He time-travels to 1965. Billy is now forty ... soon they are sleeping together. Billy wakes up in 1968, having just had a wet dream about Montana Wildhack. The next day, Billy examines a boy whose father has been killed in Vietnam. He shares Tralfamadorian insights with the boy, whose mother realizes Billy is insan...

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• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School