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In the camp, Billy is forced to take a shower. When Billy got his clothes back, they weren't any cleaner, but all the little animals that had been living in them were dead.

The German soldiers checked all the Americans. The person who was the healthiest was an old teacher, and the worst was a car thief with rotting skin and teeth.

Billy was sleepwalking and keeping everyone up; he now can't fall asleep or sometimes sleep standing up

Magpie tells Coyote Runs that he will be a part of the coming warriors.

Billy goes to a new Ilium Government Center and a Pavilion of the Arts. He listens to a speaker who was big in the Marines.

Billy Pilgrim can't sleep as he is very excited about his daughter's wedding. He talks about his time in the army and how the bombers used to take the shells back to base and have them shipped to America. There, the shell would be melted down to be used for other things. Women would usually be the ones working in these places.

They visited an abandoned railway. The only thing there was a hospital train cart

He was reading different bumper stickers and thinking about their significance

He talks about someone named Billy who writes a letter about how he was kidnapped by Aliens. He talks about the ways that the aliens see things differently, like how they can see 4 dimensions and they know that nobody dies, and all of time co-exist.

He talks about what he thinks about massacres. He doesn't want his sons to celebrate the massacre of an enemy, or ever work for a company that makes machines for massacres, as he doesn't think they should be made.

He talks about how someone had their town turned to fire and brimstone and was told not to look back, but she does anyway. He compares this to people looking back at the past, like how he was writing his war books.

He reads about some children in history who were used in war and as slaves. He and his two girls go to New York to see some early vehicles

He meets up with an old buddy, Bernard V. O'Hare. He meets his wife Mary, who ends up getting upset about the war and how the men act like they are grown tough men, when in reality they are young men, or "babies", like her baby that was upstairs. She feels like their pretending that it made them tougher will encourage future wars that take more young kids like themself into them.

We learn about him leaving the camp and visiting France before going back home to Wisconsin where he marries and has kids.

We learn about his time in the war and some of his friend's experiences with things like being a prisoner of war

We learn about Grid, and how his life is. He doesn't live in a very good place, and it takes 3 minutes before the faucet runs clear water.

His sister is playing the violin and nobody is really giving her any attention. Gregor comes out of his room to show her that he cares and wants to listen, but instead, he ends up scaring the lodgers.

The charwoman is watching over Gregor. She isn't of him. Gregor isn't eating.

His father tells his mother to close the door to Gregor's room, leaving him in darkness.

His father throws an apple at him, which disables him for a month. Noone took the apple out of him

His mother sees him, freaks out, and faints. His father comes home and is upset. Gregory barely recognizes him.

He is unsure about how the now empty room should make him feel.

His mother finally sees him after 2 months. She decides to clear out his room to let him move around more free. He likes the space to move, but feels like he is losing one of the last parts that connects to his human part.

The sister is taking more responsibility around the house. Its been a fortnight and his parents still haven't come and seen him

The family is trying to find jobs to help the family, but it isn't going well. The father is growing fat and sluggish

Gregor crawls under the couch. His sister brings him some food that he enjoys.

He is hungry and tries to find food. He doesn't like the milk even though it used to be his favorite drink

Gregor's father forces him back into his room with a stick, yelling and hissing at him

Gregor opens the door, and his family sees him. Gregor begs the chief clerk to defend him and help him keep his job, but he is shocked and tries to run away.