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. ... The wallpaper outline represents each character in a different color of crayon, with a line for each progressing through the story's chronology. ... In chapter two Billy Pilgrim believes that he has "come unstuck in time." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...

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• Grade Level: High School