The novel is about the life and times of a World War 2 veteran named Billy Pilgrim. ... The novel is broke down into two parts, Vonnegut's story about the novel and the life story of Billy Pilgrim. The life story of Billy Pilgrim, which is presented as a series of episodes with no chronological order. ... (Vonnegut 23) The reader learns thatthe things Billy Pilgrim? ... the future before it happens, he knows that he is only marrying her to get funding from her father to start his own company. ...

• Word Count: 1028
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

There are three components to Billy's story: his time in Germany, his time as a husband and father, and his time on Trafalmadore. ... It's clear that Billy's emotional response to tragic events (the death of his father, wife, and a plane full of optometrists) is muted at best, as his catch phrase throughout the entire novel is "so it goes". ... Pilgrim's Progress. ... ...

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

There are three components to Billy's story: his time in Germany, his time as a husband and father, and his time on Trafalmadore. ... It's clear that Billy's emotional response to tragic events (the death of his father, wife, and a plane full of optometrists) is muted at best, as his catch phrase throughout the entire novel is "so it goes". ... Pilgrim's Progress. ... ...

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

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut I.Character List Billy Pilgrim - The main character of the novel. ... O'Hare - A prisoner of war who was also a private and infantry scout as Billy Pilgrim was. ... She believes her father has gone crazy after his plane crash, head injury, and brain surgery. ... Billy's daughter holds him responsible for giving her father strange ideas. ... The climax occurs when Billy Pilgrim is killed. ...

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

The main character, Billy Pilgrim, is a member of several of these communities and plays a drastically different role in each one. ... Billy Pilgrim was born in the town of Ilium, New York. ... After they are married, Billy is put in charge of a successful optometry practice, but receives little help from Valencia's father. ...

• Word Count: 728
• Approx Pages: 3

The main character in the novel is Billy Pilgrim. ... The protagonist of the novel is Billy Pilgrim, a mild man. ... One is on Billy's past war experiences, which are grounded in facts; another is his "real" life in Ilium as a husband, father, and optometrist; and the third is his science fiction adventure of traveling through time and being held prisoner on the planet Trafalmadore. ...

• Word Count: 803
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Chapter Two "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." ... His father died in a hunting accident before Billy left for Europe. ... His father collects torture devices. ... He goes back to the red light of pre-birth and then forward again to a day in his childhood with his father at the YMCA. His father tries to teach him how to swim by the sink-or-swim method. ...

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

There are three components to Billy's story: his time in Germany, his time as a husband and father, and his time on Trafalmadore. ... It's clear that Billy's emotional response to tragic events (the death of his father, wife, and a plane full of optometrists) is muted at best, as his catch phrase throughout the entire novel is "so it goes ". ...

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