... he is a middle-aged optometrist playing golf with three other optometrists. He sinks a putt, bends down to pick it up, and he is back on the flying saucer. He asks where he is and how he got there. A voice reiterates that he is trapped in a blob of amber. He is where ... their pilots will accidentally blow it up. It always happens the same way and that is how the moment is structured. War cannot be prevented on Tralfamadore any more than on Earth. Billy skips back to his wedding night with Valencia in Cape Ann, Massachusetts. After they make love, Valencia asks ... Rumfoord is the offi...

• Word Count: 5323
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

... Vonnegut's time spent in Germany during WWII and the process he went through write this book. Normally, this would be recorded in a book's foreward, but Vonnegut doesn't appear to do anything normal. Chapter 1 states many times we're about to read a book about Dresden; however, there is one clue that something ... Enter the sinister criminal Paul Lazzaro. Paul has a revenge-complex, and takes on the task of avenging Roland's death, informing Billy of his impending doom. Billy, true to character, doesn't respond. The soldiers are then marched to Dresden, where they take up work in Schlach...

• Word Count: 1541
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Vonnegut's time spent in Germany during WWII and the process he went through write this book. Normally, this would be recorded in a book's foreward, but Vonnegut doesn't appear to do anything normal. Chapter 1 states many times we're about to read a book about Dresden; however, there is one clue that something ... Enter the sinister criminal Paul Lazzaro. Paul has a revenge-complex, and takes on the task of avenging Roland's death, informing Billy of his impending doom. Billy, true to character, doesn't respond. The soldiers are then marched to Dresden, where they take up work in Schlach...

• Word Count: 1646
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Vonnegut's time spent in Germany during WWII and the process he went through write this book. Normally, this would be recorded in a book's foreward, but Vonnegut doesn't appear to do anything normal. Chapter 1 states many times we're about to read a book about Dresden; however, there is one clue that something ... Enter the sinister criminal Paul Lazzaro. Paul has a revenge-complex, and takes on the task of avenging Roland's death, informing Billy of his impending doom. Billy, true to character, doesn't respond. The soldiers are then marched to Dresden, where they take up work in Schlach...

• Word Count: 1646
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... in-depth, and exciting yet not so fast paced that I would get confused. This seemed to be difficult task, because not many of the books or authors were names I recognized. Except Kurt Vonnegut. I am not sure how old Vonnegut is, or what school he attended, but I do know that he was ... 's mother died during the birth of Newt, and that Angela had to hold the family together. We also learn that Dr. Hoenikker was a very cold, uncompassionate person. In the midst of his research, John is assigned by a magazine to write an article about Julian Castle, who resides on an island called San ... ...

• Word Count: 1637
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School