Slaughterhouse-Five
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Using his own terminology, Billy Pilgrim is "unstuck in time", which means he is moving between different points in his life uncontrollably, although ...he is aware of it at certain of those points as witnessed by the letter to the editor he writes to the Ilium Daily News about his situation. Primarily, he is moving between three general time periods and locations. The first is his stint as a GI during WWII, when, as a pacifist, he was acting as a Chaplain's assistant for his unit. This time is largely as a POW, where he was in Dresden the day of the bombing, spending it with among others an older compassionate GI named Edgar Derby, and a brash loudmouth GI named Paul Lazzaro. The second is his life as an optometrist in Ilium in upstate New York, eventually married to the wealthy and overbearing Valencia Merble, and having two offspring, Robert, who would spend his teen-aged years as a semi-delinquent, and Barbara, who would end up much like her mother. And the third is as an abductee on the planet Tralfamadore, along with his devoted dog Spot, and Hollywood starlet Montana Wildhack - who was not averse to taking off her clothes to further her career - the Tralfamadorians who have put them on display. The more time he spends on Tralfamadore, the more he understands the meaning of what is happening to him. Show More

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erman, Edgar Derby, and a brash loudmouth from his home town, Roland Weary, ending up generally being the only survivors of the bombing raid.

The second is his life as a semi-successful optometrist in Ilium, New York, where he sold War Bond and was married to the love of his life, Valencia Merble. And the third is as an abductee on the alien planet of Tralfamadore, where he is displayed in a Tralfamadorian zoo along with various Earth creatures and Tralfamadorians who provide him with some enlightenment on his past, present, and future.

Billy's life becomes even more confusing when he meets who would become his first wife, the socially inept Valencia Merble, at the YMCA where both worked. Later in life, he meets his lonelier and socially awkward second wife, Rosewater- the two relationships separated by a few years and a common meeting point at a Veteran's Hospital. Throughout his life, Billy is plagued by visions and flashbacks O the bombing of Dresden, playing a central role in the overall impact to his life.