... , symbolizes the illogical. Time and memory also express the author's desolation when he witnessed the massacre of Dresden in the second world war. The science fiction elements of the novel include time travel. Billy travels in time(" Billy has gone to sleep a senile widower and awakened on his wedding ... therefore no one really dies. But this has its dark side: brutal acts also live on forever. Memory is one of the novel's important themes; because of their memories, Vonnegut and Billy cannot move past the Dresden massacre. Billy leaps back in time to Dresden again and again, but ... K...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate