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Billy had been in a plane crash. He and the copilot were the only ones to survive. While he was laying in the snow with a fractured skull, close to losing consciousness, he says the german pronunciation of "Slaughterhouse-five." Back in Dresden, a war widow prepares meals for the men. One soldier is deemed too young, another too old, and the woman asks what Billy is even supposed to be. He says he's trying to survive
— Feb 28, 2023 09:22AM
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After the airplane crash, Billy was sent to a hospital. His wife, who had simply been told that Billy would die, rushed to the hospital immediately. On her way there, she got in a car crash and passed away. Billy was neighboring a man with a broken leg at the hospital, Rumfoord. He was an old millionaire writing a history book on American War. He could not find a single thing on the bombing of Dresden.
— Mar 03, 2023 09:20AM
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Billy met with Trout, who was actually not a famous author. He was nothing at all, just a scared old man who ran a newspaper ring. Trout was surprised to have met a fan. He only knew of Rosewater (Billy's friend in the psych ward), who had written him a letter once. This letter was awful. Billy invited him to his 18th anniversary. There, Billy hears a song. The song's chords tear him up effectively and harshly.
— Mar 02, 2023 09:20AM
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The Americans in the slaughterhouse were visited by Mr. Campbell, an American who left to fight with the Germans. Edgar Derby, after Campbell asked for the prisoners to fight with the Germans too, stood up and told him that he was worse than a rat. Billy explains that no one was a character in the book except for Derby at that moment. This emphasis on the lack of "character" further drives the pointlessness of war.
— Mar 01, 2023 09:46AM
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Billy Pilgrim, with his shiny boots and a blue curtain wrapped around his shoulders, walked through Dresden to the holding place for the prisoners. Few of the Dresden citizens inferred that he was making fun of the war, but Billy knew that he looked like that because Fate had costumed him. He had shiny boots and a blue curtain because of his need to survive. The place that housed the prisoners was a slaughterhouse.
— Feb 24, 2023 09:23AM
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The Englishmen lectured the Americans on how to maintain proper hygiene; this was the thing that was supposed to encourage them to keep living. The Englishmen also said they wish they were the Americans. They say this because the Americans are going to Dresden, a pretty, safe city. The irony of this is that Dresden gets bombed in the future. They elect Edgar Derby as the "head American." Billy sympathizes with him.
— Feb 23, 2023 09:20AM
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Billy Pilgrim unsticks himself from time again and watches his death. illy is probably wrong about time travel and delusional. I personally suspect that he took some of these ideas from the numerous science fiction books he read. Back at the prison, the Englishmen were drawing a line. There was no aking what it meant for it was a familiar symbol from childhood. The Americans were meant to stay on one side.
— Feb 22, 2023 09:57AM
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Billy, still having been in the hospital wing of the prison, watch Paul Lazzero wake up after being knocked out by an Englishmen. The Englishmen want to apologize for the damage he'd done, and Lazzaro promise that he'd have him killed. In fact, Lazzaro promised to have everyone who crossed him killed. He said that the sweetest thing in life is revenge. Billy Pilgrim was one of the people he promised to kill.
— Feb 21, 2023 09:19AM
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The German prison guards began to blame the American prisoners' disagreeable behavior on the emphasis on the American Dream in the United States. They explain that the United States is a country largely composed of poor people, but no one in America wants to be poor. The lie is that money is easy to come by widely believed by Americans. They hate themselves for being poor. This is why they are disagreeable, they say.
— Feb 16, 2023 09:19AM
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The novel continues from the events at the German prison. The Englishmen and Germans really despise the Americans, describe them as uncivilized. This is mainly because the food the Englishmen made was making the Americans terribly sick. Either way, the anecdotes of Billy's time travel grow shorter, and there are now images included in the novel. I believe this shows Billy's continued descent into madness.
— Feb 15, 2023 09:48AM
