Get Slaughterhouse-Five from Amazon. View the Study Pack. View the Lesson Plans. Table of Contents. Plot Summary. Major Characters. Topic Tracking: Anti-War. Topic Tracking: Death. Topic Tracking: Humor.
Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter This section contains words approx. Print Word PDF. Chapter 2 Death 5: The narrator announces the death of Billy's father bluntly. Chapter 3 Death Wild Bob, the colonel who addressed Billy, thinking he was addressing his troops, is a brave figure who dies a pathetic death as a delirious prisoner of war.
Chapter 4 Death The narrator described the prisoners in the boxcars as a liquid which would flow out of the cars toward coolness and light. Billy continues to mumble in his sleep.
The Dresden book presents various arguments for and against the bombing and its military usefulness. Barbara , having just learned that her mother is dead and her father gravely wounded, visits Billy , who is time-traveling: to , prescribing lenses; to age 16, in a doctor's waiting room with a man afflicted by awful gas.
Rumfoord tells Lily that he needs information about Dresden for his new one-volume history of the air war in World War II—none was included in previous multi-volume editions.
Rumfoord is attempting to write a history of Dresden just as Vonnegut is trying to write a personal history of the bombings. What Rumfoord does not know, however, is that Billy, who has experienced the bombing firsthand, lies next to him. Indeed Rumfoord refuses to accept that Billy is telling the truth when he says he was present; eventually Rumfoord is convinced, but he still treats Billy as though he is unimportant. Rumfoord believes Billy is merely repeating what Rumfoord had been saying earlier; he does not believe Billy was in Dresden.
He and other Americans are in a wagon pulled by horses. They are using the wagon to collect material amid the rubble of the city. A German couple speaks softly to the horses, which have been ill-treated by their American drivers, and curse Billy for this.
When Billy looks at the broken-down horses, he cries. An important passage in the novel. Billy believes that this scene, of dozing in the sun, is one of his most pleasant memories, one to which he will return again and again over the course of his later travels through time.
This supports that idea that, even in the face of terrible tragedy and destruction, it is possible to find some beauty and goodness—however fleeting.
Related Quotes with Explanations. Rumfoord argues that Dresden was militarily necessary. Another reference to Jesus. Finally, when Rumfoord argues that Dresden was necessary for the Americans to win the war, Billy agrees. Barbara takes Billy home, where a nurse can take care of him, but Billy sneaks off to a hotel in New York. He is looking for a news program on which he can speak about his experiences with the Tralfamadorians.
Billy goes into an adult bookstore because he sees four Trout novels in the front window. He reads the beginning of a book called The Big Board , about a man and woman captured by aliens and put in a zoo on Zircon The humans are instructed to make as much money as they can while the aliens observe their behavior.
In another of the Trout novels, a man builds a time machine and travels back to meet a twelve-year-old Jesus. The Trout book dealing with Jesus is of great importance in the novel. Jesus is portrayed as the son of a carpenter, learning the trade himself. She dies one hour later.
In the next bed, an arrogant Harvard history professor named Bertram Copeland Rumfoord is recovering from a skiing accident. Rumfoord is the official Air Force historian, and he is working on a condensed history of the U. When Billy first regains consciousness, everyone thinks the accident has left him a vegetable. But behind his catatonic facade he is preparing to tell the world about Tralfamadore and to explain the true nature of time.
Billy then travels back to a May afternoon in Dresden, two days before the end of the war. Many Germans have fled because they heard that the Russians were coming.
Billy and a few other prisoners find a green, coffin-shaped wagon hitched to two horses, and they fill it with food and souvenirs. Outside the slaughterhouse, Billy remains in the wagon and dozes in the sun. It is a happy moment in his life. The sound of a middle-aged German couple talking about the horses awakens him.
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