... Weary, is a cruel, insecure character that saves Billy's life repeatedly in acts that he thinks will make him a hero. Billy first time shifts as he leans against a tree in a Luxembourg forest. He has fallen behind the others and has little will to continue. He swings through the extremes of his life: the violet light of death, the red light of pre-birth. Then he is a small boy being thrown ... into the deep end of the YMCA swimming pool by his father, a proponent of the "sink or swim" method. He time-travels ... will be kidnapped by the Tralfamadorians' flying saucer in an hour. Billy ...

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• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

... pants. He jumps forward in time just ten days, to later in the same vacation. He is visiting Carlsbad Caverns. The ranger turns the lights off, so that the tourists can experience total darkness. But Billy sees a light nearby: the radium dial of his father's watch. Billy jumps back to the war. The Germans think Billy is one of the funniest creatures they've seen in all of the war. His coat is ... . She makes Billy feel worse just by being there. Billy leaps back in time to the POW camp. A British colonel talks to Derby; after the newly arrived Americans shaved, the British were shocked b...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School