... A weak soldier in World War II, Billy learns how to time travel, to the past and future, although has no control of when or where these travels will occur or take him. Throughout the novel, Billy talks of the bombing of Dresden, which he lived through as a prisoner of war. After the war ... is fate control his life. Although he has been "unstuck in time," he doesn't try to control where he travels to in time, nor when these travels take place. Because of his unexpected time travels, he still dwells on the horrors of the war, which he keeps revisiting over and over. III. Point ... narrat...

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... . Science fiction was a big help" (Vonnegut 101). This comment, Keogh and Kislatis say, "could suggest that all the time and space travels are tricks of Billy's mind hallucinatory escape from reality in such circumstances [Dresden] seems completely plausible" (197). Billy travels to the planet Tralfamadore many times throughout the novel. There, he learns and adopts the Tralfamadorian concept of time, that all ... ...

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... time on their planet is over, he is sent back to earth to the exact night he first left, meaning no time has actually passed at all. From then, he travels back and forth through time for the rest of his life. Not much is written about the remainder of his life. He survives a plane crash, meets his idol Kilgore Trout ... ...

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... time on their planet is over, he is sent back to earth to the exact night he first left, meaning no time has actually passed at all. From then, he travels back and forth through time for the rest of his life. Not much is written about the remainder of his life. He survives a plane crash, meets his idol Kilgore Trout ... ...

• Word Count: 1646
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... time on their planet is over, he is sent back to earth to the exact night he first left, meaning no time has actually passed at all. From then, he travels back and forth through time for the rest of his life. Not much is written about the remainder of his life. He survives a plane crash, meets his idol Kilgore Trout ... ...

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... to look to other means to fill the emptiness that he is feeling. In Breakfast of Champions, Kilgore Trout is a very lonely man. He is constantly looking for someone. He travels halfway across the country because of the one person who likes his works. Throughout his entire trip, Trout talks to everyone. He tries to create some kind of relationship with ... ...

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... of the story is unique like no other. The story does not follow a chronological order whatsoever. Because of Billy's specific time travel affliction, the book follows him around in his travels. There is no present, there are no flashbacks or even predictions of the future; simply the current chunk of time that is being looked at. Like it was quoted above ... ...

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