Kilgore Trout

hints are that, while he is in New York, he finds a library with Kilgore Trout’s, his favorite science fiction writer, books. The first one tells the story that made him believe he was kidnapped by the Tralfamadorians “It was about an Earthling man and woman who were kidnapped by extraterrestrials. They were put on display in a zoo on a planet called Zircon-212” (Vonnegut 204) The second one talks about time traveling “Another Kilgore Trout book there in the window was about a man who built a time machine”

During his stay at mental hospital he would bed next to a former infantry captain, Eliot Rosewater, where Rosewater would introduce him to the science novelist Kilgore Trout. Through the stories by Trout, Billy read about aliens and time traveling. From these ideas, influenced by Trout, Billy was able to make up his own stories and correlate them to his personal war experiences. One of the more obvious and clear signs that Billy has gone insane is his claim to be have

Similar to many movies based on books, director George Roy Hill’s movie strayed away from Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, Slaughterhouse Five. Vonnegut creatively begins the novel as the narrator of the story, describing the development of writing his “anti-war” book taking place in Dresden – the city that was bombed in 1945 during World War II (Wicks 329). Vonnegut’s prominent novel begins with a unique introduction through engaging and strangely humorous chapters with recurring literary devices, strong

Time Traveling is all in Billy’s mind and he has no control over this From reading slaughterhouse five by Kurt Vonnegut, and studying its context, I have come to the hypothesis that Billy Pilgrim never actually travelled in time and that he had no control over what is going on inside his head .His time travels were simply memories mixed with fictional events all mixed together and regurgitated out in an order way which doesn’t represent a normal time continuum. It is clear that in the book Billy

From experience as a student myself, students often read books and short stories and often only think about what they are they are reading. People focus in on the material and nothing outside of it. The idea of using another novel or story as a theoretical lens text never occurs to them. A theoretical lens is when you use another piece of work to describe, or bring out more detail in another piece of work. The Cyborg Manafesto by Donna Haraway compliments many of the ideas brought up in Breakfast

1. Major Characters of the Novel a. Billy Pilgrim is the person that the book is written around. We follow him, perhaps not in a straight order, from his youth joining the military to his abduction on the alien planet of Tralmalfadore, to his older age at his 1960s home in Illum. It is his experiences and journeys that we follow, and his actions we read about. However, Billy had a specific lack of character for a main one. He is not heroic, he has very little personality traits, let alone an immersive

Billy Pilgrim was a fictional representation of the stress caused by the bombing of Dresden, Germany. His experience in World War II destroyed his view on life and destroyed his concept of time. After the bombing, Billy spent most of his life hallucinating about his past. Billy slowly lost his mind and eventually claimed he was abducted by aliens called Tralfamadorians. These aliens from the fourth dimension helped him cope with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. However, they also led him deeper into

“War is hell” goes the commonly used phrase. While conducted with a purpose in mind, many believe war to bring nothing but violence and death. In the history of mankind and combat, men have committed many abominable acts against one another as a means to an end. The bombing of Dresden, Germany, one of these loathsome deeds, while seldom mentioned and not widely known, remains one of the deadliest air raids in history. Just as in all largely fatal events, the survivors reflect upon the unbearable

what makes another world so intriguing, what get Billy out of our world that is plagued by war. This is justifiable because war is an awful experience and who wouldn 't want an escape from the constant death, injury, and fighting. Billy gets into Kilgore Trout’s books before he even shows signs of PTSD. The books are already infused in his brain and Billy’s fantasies becomes his reality when he starts to have hallucinations. He

One of Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s most distinguished novel is Slaughterhouse-Five, a story about Billy Pilgrim who became a POW soldier much like Vonnegut was in his life. This story follows the life of Pilgrim, which at first reflected Vonnegut’s life until it took a wild turn when Pilgrim was abducted by Aliens that resembled upside-down toilet plungers, and was taken to the planet Tralfamadore. After being sent back to Earth, Pilgrim gets in a plane crash (and survives) and his wife dies of carbon monoxide