... Vonnegut's story through the life of Billy Pilgrim. The three most important places are Germany during world war two; Ilium, New York, before and after the war; and an alien planet called Tralfamadore. Ilium, New York is the fictional town in New York where Billy Pilgrim is born in 1922 and where he lives most of his life. In Chapter 1, Vonnegut ... him to start skipping through time. This setting mirrors the narrators the most. Vonnegut having experienced war and imprisoned in Dresden himself. Another important setting in the story is the planet of Tralfamadore, where Billy is taken to...

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... is a different kind of problem we face in present. Since the car was invented the airpollution rose enormously so that in some parts on this planet you can't leave your house without wearing a breathing mask! But it gets even better. We all know of the hole in the ozone layer ... our lives. We have all heard of the use of landmines in some wars in the past and in present. In some parts on this planet there are still minefields left unattended.There are families living and children playing on minefields. What kind of fate do children have who step on a ... waste as an unwanted side effe...

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... as a pillar of society. During World War II, he is considered an ill-prepared loner that is a burden to the people around him. While on display in the Zoo on planet Trafalmadore, Billy is considered a "splendid specimen" of a human being, perfect in every way. Ironically, Billy never feels as accepted in the communities he participates in on earth as he does ... experience. Adding to Billy's already troubled existence, he is abducted by an alien mother ship on his daughter's wedding night and is put on display in an zoo on the planet Trafalmadore. Billy is Put on display with a Hollywoo...

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... , some other Americans, and a few German guards hide in the basement of Slaughterhouse Five during the bombing and manage to escape unharmed. Another important setting in the book is the planet of Tralfamadore, where Billy is taken by aliens. There he is held captive and displayed in a zoo, along with his earthling mate, Montana Wildhack, an american star of pornographic movies ... ; another is his "real" life in Ilium as a husband, father, and optometrist; and the third is his science fiction adventure of traveling through time and being held prisoner on the planet Trafalmadore. None of ...

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... he is only marrying her to get funding from her father to start his own company. More of the time travels Billy has take him to his time on the planet Tralfamadore. Billy says that the aliens abducted him on his daughter's wedding night and returned him a few milliseconds later, but actually spend many months on Tralfamadore because the Tralfamadorians can ... his comrades deaths being inoffensive; whereas, if you ask any veteran of war, no shots are inoffensive even if a fellow person is not killed by it. Billy also visits the planet Tralfamadore in the book. His trip to Tralfamadore e...

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... . He then returned to his home in Ilium, New York and becomes an optometrist. On the night of his daughter's wedding he was captured by aliens and brought to the planet Tralfamadore. He was only gone for a few seconds in Earth time. On his way to a convention his plane crashed and he was the only survivor. After he recovered the operation ... . Another important setting is in Germany, this is where Billy fought in the war and forced to do hard labor. Tralfamadore is also an important setting because that is the planet where the aliens took him. I would not recommend this book to some one ...

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Author Kurt Vonnegut is often perceived as one of the greatest post-apocalyptic authors of the 20th century. His stories take from his life experiences, carrying a melancholy feeling that transcends his writing, taking the reader into the story. The son of third generation German immigrants, he was born in 1922 in Indianapolis, where his great grandfather had founded Vonnegut Hardware Company. Vonnegut's father and grandfather had both attended MIT before become architects at their company. His brother discovered the process of stimulating precipitation that is, having the ability to make it r...

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... the gas chambers and population control disguised as a love song, declaring that if the object of the singer's affection does not return his love, he will "get off this old planet, let some sweet baby have my place" (3). In Kurt Vonnegut's 2 B R 0 2 B, citizens are stripped of their rights of individuality and self expression. This dystopian setting is displayed through imagery, theme, and ... ...

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Kurt Vonnegut tells the story of Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five; His uncontrollable time traveling takes Billy back to his experiences in World War II and on the planet which is called Traflamadore. Throughout this novel Vonnegut blatantly disobeys the conventional rules of storytelling. He does this after trying multiple times to write a straight-forward book on the bombing ... ...

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... shocking that can certainly produce any mental disorder, as the one that Billy has (" `It's all true.' Billy' s anger was not going to rise with hers. `There is no such planet as Tralfamadore.' `It can't be detected from Earth if that's what you mean.'-). In conclusion, my opinion is that Kurt Vonnegut really expressed his desolation in really original ways and ... ...

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... Billy talks to some Trafamadorian tourists during his captivity about the lives of the Trafamadorians, they exchange questions about their lives on their relative planets. ""But you do have a peaceful planet here?" "Today we do. On other days, we have wars as horrible as any you have ever seen or read about. There is not anything we can do about them ... ...

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... or swim method and throws Billy in the pool, and Billy as expected, sinks. Billy believes that he can become "unstuck in time" and that he can time travel to a planet called Tralfamadore. He takes on the Tralfamadore way of thinking. This is where the phrase "so it goes" actually comes from. According to Billy the Tralfamadoreians have no concept of ... ...

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... one about the way people should also think. As the book starts off, is says this, "This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." These characters are Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover. Kilgore Trout was a science fiction novelist that was a nobody to put in easy to understand terms. Dwayne Hoover ... ...

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