... are many dynamic communities in the book Slaughterhouse Five. The main character, Billy Pilgrim, is a member of several of these communities and plays a drastically different role in each one. In his hometown of Ilium, New York, Billy is seen 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 ... 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 in t...

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... , humanity, regeneration, motion, and death. In the first place, the author's views on death are expressed in almost every page of the book, since the bombing of Dresden had a profound impact on the life and writing of him. 135,000 people died in the ruins of Dresden, which means that it was the greatest man-caused massacre of all times. In the book, Vonnegut deals with death as it is ... on his wedding day. He has walked through a door in 1955 and come out another one in 1941-), experience his life's events out of order and repeatedly. He learns on the alien world of Trafalmadore that a...

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