Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. ... MY COMMENTS: I've read several Kurt Vonnegut books in the past, including this one. ... In this first chapter, even before the beginning of the novel, it is easy to see that the narrator, the author, is a very passive individual. ... Chapter Two "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." ... MY COMMENTS: There are a few things in this chapter that come to my attention. ...

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

Vonnegut - In the first and last chapters, Vonnegut explains why he wrote this novel. ... She believes that books and movies about war only promotes the glorification of war. ... In the first chapter, Vonnegut is the narrator and tells the story through a 1st person point of view. ... In the first chapter of this novel, Vonnegut speaks about why he is writing this book and tells of the actual bombing of Dresden from his real point-of-view. The second chapter starts the fictional story Vonnegut stirs up to tell of the bombing without using a non-fiction, first person point-of-view. ...

• Word Count: 1657
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I reread the first chapter after finishing the book, and it's somewhat clearer now that it's a jumbled autobiographic account of Vonnegut's time spent in Germany during WWII and the process he went through write this book. ... Chapter 1 states many times we're about to read a book about Dresden; however, there is one clue that something is amiss when Vonnegut speaks of "someone playing with the clocks" and "as an Earthling" he had to "believe whatever clocks said" (pg. 20). Chapter 2, the actual beginning of the story explains that Billy, th...

• Word Count: 1646
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I reread the first chapter after finishing the book, and it's somewhat clearer now that it's a jumbled autobiographic account of Vonnegut's time spent in Germany during WWII and the process he went through write this book. ... Chapter 1 states many times we're about to read a book about Dresden; however, there is one clue that something is amiss when Vonnegut speaks of "someone playing with the clocks" and "as an Earthling" he had to "believe whatever clocks said" (pg. 20). Chapter 2, the actual beginning of the story explains that Billy, th...

• Word Count: 1646
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I reread the first chapter after finishing the book, and it's somewhat clearer now that it's a jumbled autobiographic account of Vonnegut's time spent in Germany during WWII and the process he went through write this book. ... Chapter 1 states many times we're about to read a book about Dresden; however, there is one clue that something is amiss when Vonnegut speaks of "someone playing with the clocks " and "as an Earthling " he had to "believe whatever clocks said " (pg. 20). Chapter 2, the actual beginning of the story explains that Billy, the protagonist, is a time-tr...

• Word Count: 1541
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Most books we are used to follow a very simple chronological order, possibly with a flashback here or there, and that's it. ... In this passage at the beginning of Chapter 5, one of Billy's captors explains the Tralfamadorian novel to him. ... What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time" (Vonnegut 88). ...

• Word Count: 1507
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School