Billy Pilgrim does not get much love from the other, more experienced soldiers. ... Those were sticks of high-explosive bombs. ... Pilgrim, after the raid, is sent to go and prepare all the dead bodies for burial. ... Billy works for the Ilium School of Optometry as an optometrist and is married to Valencia a woman who Billy finds unattractive and is only married to him for the money. ... She said that everybody at the Optometry School was sorry he was sick and hoped he would be well soon " (Vonnegut 197). ...

• Word Count: 1265
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Slaughterhouse Five is the story of a small, timid man named Billy Pilgrim. Billy attended optometry school before being drafted into the United States army during the second world war. ... Billy Pilgrim, just like any other human being, can not choose which points in his life to relive. ... For example, a 44 year old high school teacher named Edgar Derby wanted to be able to fight in the war. ... The bird who continually asks Billy Pilgrim, "Poo-tee-weet?" ...

• Word Count: 1466
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

After Vonnegut graduated high school in 1940, he moved on to Cornell, where he enlisted in the US Army, who transferred him to the University of Tennessee to study mechanical engineering. ... After the war, Vonnegut married his high school sweetheart, and together they had three children. ... However, Pilgrim believes that because he was in an alien zoo for a time, he is now time travelling. As the story progresses, bouncing from time to time, stories of Pilgrim's time in Dresden are shared, as well as some stories from Pilgrim's "future,"" an unlikely 1976. Following the stories,...

• Word Count: 603
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He's a young man in optometry school when he's drafted to the war. ... After shock treatments, his release from the hospital, and graduation from optometry school, he marries a woman named Valencia, has 2 children, and grows a successful optometry business. ... In a show of bravado, 32 copies were set on fire in a high school's coal burner in North Dakota (Morais). ... Pilgrim's Progress. ... ...

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

He's a young man in optometry school when he's drafted to the war. ... After shock treatments, his release from the hospital, and graduation from optometry school, he marries a woman named Valencia, has 2 children, and grows a successful optometry business. ... In a show of bravado, 32 copies were set on fire in a high school's coal burner in North Dakota (Morais). ... Pilgrim's Progress. ... ...

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

O'Hare - A prisoner of war who was also a private and infantry scout as Billy Pilgrim was. ... Valencia Merble - Billy's wife, daughter of Lionel Merble, the founder and owner of the Iliad School of Optometry where Billy studies to become an optometrist. ... They are little men, with an arm raised up high with one eyeball in the palm of its hand. ... Campbell Jr. - A former American who turns Nazi and rises high in the German Ministry of Propaganda. ... The climax occurs when Billy Pilgrim is killed. ...

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

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." ... He graduates high school and begins training as an optometrist before being drafted. ...

• Word Count: 5323
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

Vonnegut went to public high school, unlike his two older siblings, and there gained early writing experience writing for the high school's daily paper. ... Billy Pilgrim experienced exactly what Vonnegut did in his own life. In many ways Vonnegut used Billy Pilgrim as a puppet to explain his own feelings and emotions from that time. ... One movie for instance, "Back to School", starring Rodney Dangerfield; features Vonnegut for about five seconds. ... A year later "Slaughter House Five" came out and became very well known as being a high quality, classic motion picture. ...

• Word Count: 1839
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He's a young man in optometry school when he's drafted to the war. ... After shock treatments, his release from the hospital, and graduation from optometry school, he marries a woman named Valencia, has 2 children, and grows a successful optometry business. ... In a show of bravado, 32 copies were set on fire in a high school's coal burner in North Dakota (Morais). ...

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

Chapter Two "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." ... He was going to night school in optometry when he got drafted to fight in World War II. ... In 1945 he returned to the States, finished optometry school, and married the daughter of the school's owner. ... After his release, he finished school, married the girl, got his own practice with help from his father-in-law, became quite rich, and had two kids. ...

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