... he imagines himself and the two scouts as fast friends. In his head he refers to them and himself as the Three Musketeers, and tells himself the story of how the Three Musketeers saved the life of a dumb college kid. Straggling behind the others, Billy becomes unstuck in time. He goes back to ... and is having vivid (but pleasant) hallucinations. Weary tries to be chummy with his supposed buddies, the scouts, grouping himself with them as "the Three Musketeers." The scouts abandon the two and tell Weary that he and Billy are on their own. Billy goes to 1957, when he gives a speech as ....

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

... Five. Muller later sends O'Hare a Christmas card with wishes for world peace. Vonnegut relates his unsuccessful attempts to write about Dresden in the twenty- three years since his return. He is very proud of the outline of the story that he draws in crayon on the back of a roll of ... training as a chaplain's assistant in South Carolina, and his dazed trek behind enemy lines after the disastrous Battle of the Bulge. Billy falls in with three other American soldiers, two of whom are scouts and capable soldiers. The one who is not, the antitank gunner, Roland Weary, is a cruel, insecure ....

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

... Bulge, which was Germany's final offensive of World War Two. Almost as soon as he arrived, Billy became "a dazed wanderer far behind the new German lines" (32). Billy wandered with three other Americans until they were captured, and eventually loaded into boxcars to Dresden. In the aftermath of the bombing, Billy took part in opening the "corpse mines", which were underground ... Weary. Weary has a massively over-inflated image of himself. He invents a story of bravery involving himself and the two scouts in their party, in which the threesome, calling themselves the "three musketeers",...

• Word Count: 2002
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School