This anti-war novel centers on Billy Pilgrim, a meek, feeble optometry student who gets drafted into World War II and becomes "un-stuck in time"; he travels forwards and backwards to different places and points in his life. ... He was sent there as prisoner of war, which the antagonist in the novel, Billy Pilgrim, was as well. ... Vonnegut used his encounter with war as a direct inspiration for Billy Pilgrim's. ... Progressing on that statement, death is a horrible thing. ... It was the result of him trying to get us (the readers) to realize how bad war really is and what he exp...

• Word Count: 1071
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School