"Slaughterhouse Five" Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a novel involving the character Billy Pilgrim. Billy is a WWII veteran, German prisoner of war, and survivor of the bombing of Dresden, who insists that he has become stuck in time. Having witnessed and survived the atrocities of WWII, there is no doubt that Billy Pilgrim left the war traumatized and unstable. Many events and experiences lived by Billy ... the war is so immense that his mind must leave Earth to get away from the pain within. Billy is triggered by normal events within his everyday life, which slingshot him through time back to the Bo...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School