Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut I.Character List Billy Pilgrim - The main character of the novel. A weak soldier in World War II, Billy learns how to time travel, to the ... at Billy's eighteenth anniversary party, and on the plane that crashes, where they die. This quartet brings some horrid memories back to Billy. II. Conflict In Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim is both the protagonist and antagonist because of his internal struggle. He is too weak to control his own life. He lets what he believes ... World War II, Germany, and the fictional Trafalmador. V. Plot Summary Addressed as...

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... Kurt Vonnegut's literary masterpiece, "Slaughterhouse Five," we're told that the all the events of the story are true, more or less, and that Vonnegut experienced the Dresden bombings firsthand. The jumbled narrative structure is Vonnegut's way of telling his story of Dresden. The setting of Slaughterhouse-Five is wide-ranged, each place having a significant effect on Vonnegut's ... seems a normal life. Germany is another important setting in the book, especially the city of Dresden. During the war Billy pilgrim is captured by the Germans and is held as a prisoner of war in Dresden. In G...

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• Grade Level: High School

... aftermath would have been, at the time of its publication, a cathartic novel for those veterans suffering from leftover emotional scars received after serving their country some 20 years earlier. Vonnegut was asked by an old war buddy's wife not to glamorize war (pgs. 14-15), which he successfully complied with. Throw in a chronologically challenged story line, a few aliens, and time-travel, ... days as a senile widower trying to figure out a way to tell the world of his time on Tralfamadore. He claims he'll eventually be shot and killed by none other than Lazzaro. Slaughterhouse Five r...

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

... aftermath would have been, at the time of its publication, a cathartic novel for those veterans suffering from leftover emotional scars received after serving their country some 20 years earlier. Vonnegut was asked by an old war buddy's wife not to glamorize war (pgs. 14-15), which he successfully complied with. Throw in a chronologically challenged story line, a few aliens, and time-travel, ... days as a senile widower trying to figure out a way to tell the world of his time on Tralfamadore. He claims he'll eventually be shot and killed by none other than Lazzaro. Slaughterhouse Five r...

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