The main character is Billy Pilgrim who is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself. Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim, emerged from a meat locker beneath a slaughterhouse into the moonscape of burned-out Dresden. ... In chapter two Billy Pilgrim believes that he has "come unstuck in time." ... Then he is a small boy being thrown into the deep end of the YMCA swimming pool by his father, a proponent of the "sink or swim" method. ...

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• Approx Pages: 21
• 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