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Summary of the Novel
Chapter One is a preface-like chapter in the novel. Vonnegut describes the difficulty of writing Slaughterhouse-Five. Although he felt his war experiences needed to be written, he feels the finished product is a failure.
Billy Pilgrim travels in time. Most of his travels revolve around his experiences as a prisoner of war in World War II. Because he is a time traveller, he always knows what the outcome of each experience will be.
Billy, who was recently in a plane crash, is eager to tell the world about the wisdom of the planet Tralfamadore, whose residents kidnapped him. While his daughter berates him, he travels to his war experiences. After a major battle, Billy is hiding behind enemy lines with three other soldiers. One of them is Roland Weary, who is about to beat Billy, when they are captured by the Germans.
On his march to the railyards, Billy time travels to his optometry office in Ilium. He listens to a speech at the Lion's club in favor of blanket bombing in Vietnam, then goes home for a nap. He returns to World War II. At the railyards, the prisoners are loaded onto boxcars for transportation to the prison camps.
Next Billy time travels to the moment when the Tralfamadorian spaceship kidnapped him, then returns to the boxcar. Roland Weary is dead when the prisoners arrive at the German prison camp. After a few days there, during which time Billy time travels to the mental ward where he stayed after the war, his death, the Tralfamadorian zoo, and his wedding night, the Americans are sent to Dresden.
The Americans are housed in an abandoned slaughteryard in Dresden. Billy relives the plane crash and his rescue. Back in Dresden, he and his friend, Edgar Derby, work at a malt syrup factory.
During an air raid, Billy travels to his seventeenth wedding anniversary party, where a barbershop quartet dredges up a suppressed memory of the bombing of Dresden. He then goes to the zoo on Tralfamadore, where he tells his beautiful mate, Montana, about his memory. After the flames of Dresden have died down, the prisoners and their guards leave the gutted city in search of food and shelter, finally staying at an inn outside of the city.
Billy's wife, Valencia, dies on her way to see him in the hospital after the plane accident. Because of his silence after the crash, he is considered a vegetable. He finally speaks to Bertram Rumfoord, telling him that he was in Dresden when it was bombed and that the Tralfamadorians had taught him that the destruction of Dresden had to be. After being discharged, Billy sneaks off to New York and gets on a radio show, where he talks about the Tralfamadorians. Vonnegut says that he hopes Billy's philosophy is wrong.
Billy is put to work digging the corpses out of the rubble. Edgar Derby is shot for looting a teapot. One day, the war is finally over. Billy walks free into the springtime world.
The Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father was a prominent architect and his mother the daughter of a wealthy brewer. They were liberal, atheistic, and well-to-do third-generation Germans who were prominent in the social scene of their city.
Although Vonnegut's older brother and sister were both educated in private schools, the Depression caused such a dramatic drop in the family income that the Vonneguts could no longer afford such luxuries as continuing to pay for Vonnegut's education. The change was traumatic for Vonnegut's parents and eventually led to his mother Edith's suicide in 1944. Vonnegut adjusted well to public school, where he started writing as a reporter for the newspaper at Shortridge High School.
Vonnegut enrolled in Cornell in 1941. At his father's recommendation that he study something practical, Vonnegut majored in chemistry. He continued to write, eventually becoming editor of the student paper at Cornell University.
In 1942, Vonnegut enlisted in the army. He was captured by Germans on December 22, 1944, after the Battle of the Bulge. From the front he was eventually sent to the open city of Dresden. While he was there, the Allies firebombed the city, killing 135,000 people. (By comparison, about half that number died in the bombing of Hiroshima.) Vonnegut survived only because his prison was a meat locker 60 feet underground.
After the war, Vonnegut married Jane Marie Cox, with whom he would have three children. He briefly attended the University of Chicago, then moved to Schenectady, New York, where he worked as a publicist for General Electric. During this time Vonnegut began to sell stories to such publications as Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post. Encouraged by his successes, he left his position at G.E. to pursue writing full-time in 1950.
Vonnegut's first full-length novel was Player Piano, published in 1951. His next novel, Sirens of Titan, was not published until 1959. Although this may have been the least successful part of his career, he did manage to support his family, including three nephews adopted when his sister died, from the earnings brought in by the short stories he wrote during this period.
Vonnegut's next book was Mother Night (1961), which was followed rapidly by Cat's Cradle (1963) and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965). Vonnegut turned to teaching in 1965, eventually coming to the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop. While there, he was offered a three-book contract, which was followed in short order by a Guggenheim fellowship. These fortuitous events led to the writing of Slaughterhouse-Five, which was published in 1969.
Slaughterhouse-Five was a success both critically and financially. Since its publication, Vonnegut has pursued writing full-time, producing eight more novels and many other works. His most recently published work is 1995's Timequake.
Historical Background
World War II started in September, 1939, when Germany invaded a heavily resisting Poland. France and Great Britain, which had signed an alliance with Poland, had been attempting to restrain Nazi aggression through diplomatic measures, but the invasion forced them to declare war. Meanwhile, the United States, which was in an isolationist mood carried over from World War I, declared itself neutral.
Because of its discipline, organization, and firepower, Germany was very successful and quickly overran the Poles. The Allies were able to do little against the German juggernaut, in great deal because of the outdated nature of their armies. While they had chosen to rest on their victor's laurels, the Germans had aggressively modernized their army, devoting special resources to their air force. This led to the development of the dive bomber, which flew at low altitude to hit enemy targets, and aircrafts capable of flying for longer distances, permitting the bombing of targets far behind enemy lines.
These resources came to bear in the Battle of Great Britain (1940-1941), which was conducted almost entirely in the air. German forces bombed military targets, but Great Britain's extensive radar network limited their effectiveness, and there were few casualties. Not until Britain sent a force to bomb Berlin did Hitler aim the German aircraft at civilian targets in Britain. Fortunately, the Germans refused to launch a land-based invasion and turned their attention instead toward the U.S.S.R..
While the United States covertly aided the British throughout this period, it was not until the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 that the United States officially entered the war. At this time, Great Britain was only hanging on, and France had long fallen. Britain, the United States, and the U.S.S.R. spent much time strategizing, deciding to pursue war on other fronts before tackling the Germans on the continent.
In early 1944, the Allies pursued a campaign of air warfare against the Germans that was designed not only to take out military and industrial targets but to sap the will of the people by attacking civilian sites. Incendiary bombing played a significant role in these raids, leading to a great loss of life. Then, in June of 1944, after the fall of Mussolini, the Allies invaded German-occupied France through Normandy. The quick Allied victories as the Nazis were routed from France came as a surprise, and the Allies did not pursue their advantage as well as they might have. However, as the German forces were pushed behind their own borders, they began to resist more strongly. By November, the two sides had come to a stalemate.
In this interim, the German forces regrouped. Hitler called for Total Mobilization, forcing every able bodied male between 16 and 60 into the army. These reserve forces allowed the Germans to surprise the Allied forces in the Battle of the Bulge, which took place in weakly defended Ardenne hills on December 14, 1944. Kurt Vonnegut was involved in this battle, which resulted in the death of 120,000 Germans and 75,000 Americans. It was the last great German offensive action.
In preparation for the invasion of Germany, the Allies intensified their aerial bombardment of Germany in early 1945. The culmination of these attacks was the levelling of refugee-swollen Dresden on February 13-14, 1945, an attack which was led by the British forces. While the Allies claimed Dresden was an important communication and transportation hub, there is now little doubt that its destruction served no military purpose, especially since the Dresden railyard was damaged so little that it was functioning again within three days. At a loss estimated at 135,000 civilian lives, most of whom died as a result of a firestorm that reached 1000 degrees Fahrenheit rather than the bombing itself, the casualties exceeded those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is the overlooked tragedy that Vonnegut records in Slaughterhouse-Five.
Germany collapsed in the spring of 1945, as the Allies pushed in from the west and the Soviets from the east. After Hitler committed suicide, his successor surrendered on May 8, 1945, ending the war in Europe. In a few more months, Japan too surrendered, but the face of the world and of warfare would never be the same.
Kurt Vonnegut's wartime experiences provide the grist for the formative, and most relevant, life experiences of Billy Pilgrim. Vonnegut's participation in the war took place at a historical cusp. The Battle of the Bulge, in which he fought, was the only time the Germans had the kind of radical successes against American forces that would allow them to take prisoners. Hitler's last gasp, the Total Mobilization, is reflected in Billy/Vonnegut's description of the German soldiers who capture them, a motley group containing a poorly shod and dressed teenager as well as two extremely old men.
The hostility of the Germans toward the Russians, who by the time of Billy/Vonnegut's capture had killed over a million German soldiers, is epitomized by Billy's eerie encounter with a starving, yet still very much human, Russian prisoner of war. Within the text, this episode contrasts strongly with the depiction of the British prisoners, who seem to benefit from the same positive attitude that kept Hitler seeking a British surrender instead of British annihilation. They are fit and healthy, while the Russians are dying from hunger and the cold. It would have been difficult for Vonnegut not to notice the difference even if he did not know the reason for it.
The developments in warfare also strongly affected Vonnegut's experience. The use of firebombing was only made possible by the invention of longer-range aircraft. The strategy of attacking civilian targets (ostensibly for "demoralization") was also quite novel. (As noted, the German forces themselves aimed only for military targets until the British initiated the practice against Berlin. German civilians suffered far more heavily as a result of this "tactic" than the British, who were protected by their coastal radar network.)
The Germans also had not prepared for firestorms resulting from incendiary bombing, as the effect had only been discovered a short time before in Hamburg. Without numerous deeply dug bomb shelters, there was no way for such a large population to escape the killing effects of high heat and oxygen depletion. The development of long-range bombers, the decision to firebomb civilians, and the lack of an effective warning system or shelter were all responsible for the destruction of Dresden and the slaughter of its unsuspecting populace. Oddly, Vonnegut's meat locker prisoner, which would doubtlessly been repulsive to the Dresden populace, preserved him from the firestorm's effects.
It is worthwhile to note that the personalized narrative Vonnegut is able to provide this event is itself original, or at least it was at the time the book was published. After the end of World War II, the Dresden catastrophe was swept under the rug. Military histories avoided its mention and official information on the incident was classified long beyond any reasonable time. The only possible explanation for this "oversight" is the one cited at the end of Slaughterhouse-Five by a military hawk: the "true story" upsets anyone with a conscience. Even the British attempted to retreat from their "accomplishment," realizing that the bombing of a defenseless population of civilians inhabiting one of the most beautiful cities in Europe had almost no support among their own people.
For a long time the pretense was held that the city was of some military importance; but as Slaughterhouse-Five reminds the reader over and over, this simply was not true. And as David Irving documents in his seminal The Destruction of Dresden, the railyards were completely missed, while the historical center of the city was turned into a kiln that baked human beings into little bricks. The reason for the bombing seems to descend into a combination of gross callousness and the desire to get revenge on the Germans. Noteworthily, the raid on Dresden took place long before the concentration camps came to light.
Irving's book was also inspirational to Vonnegut, as it was the first fully researched documentation of the attack on Dresden, its causes and its aftermath. It makes clear the innocent situation of the Dresdeners, who, although short on food, felt safe thanks to Dresden's status as an "open city." This same belief led the city's leaders to not consider heavy-duty bomb shelters a priority. Finally, the myth of Dresden's safety made is a magnet for refugees fleeing the Russian advance. Unfortunately, these mistakes resulted in even more deaths when the city was finally attacked.
Yet the Destruction of Dresden maintains a detached air, even in its descriptions of basements filled to wading depth with human gore and water tanks loaded with boiled corpses. Hiroshima was truly a tragedy, but few people know that more people died in the Dresden firestorm (and in fire-bombed Tokyo) than in the wake of the Enola-Gay. Slaughterhouse-Five is often the first time an American will ever have heard of these events. It was up to Vonnegut to bring this tragedy to the notice of the world in a way no one could forget, and in a way that could only ring so true with his own experiences behind it.
Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five during the Vietnam war years. Protests against the war were numerous, but the feeling of inevitable victory ran high in many quarters. Simultaneous with the national debate over the war, the 1960s were marked by advances and setbacks in American race relations. The civil rights movement had had many successes, but there had also been rioting in some cities.
Before Vonnegut finished Slaughterhouse-Five, both Robert Kennedy, hero of the anti-war movement, and Martin Luther King would be dead. Their deaths started a loss of optimism in American life that would receive its coup de grace in the Seventies from Watergate and the miltary fiasco in Vietnam.
The 1960s were a pivotal era in the advancement of the fictional form. Black humor met with great success during this time. Most notable among its practitioners was Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22. Black humor acknowledged the absurdity of the world's workings, making this absurdity a matter for laughter. Man's inability to affect his fate was accepted as the status quo.
Vonnegut was categorized as a black humorist for some time, along with such outstanding authors as Terry Southern and John Barth. It was not a dishonorable characterization, but rather limiting to the critical analysis of his work. Much worse was his earlier label of science fiction author, a result of the futuristic setting of his first two novels, the dystopian Player Piano and the space opera parody Sirens of Titan. Such a description ignored his short story work and pigeonholed Vonnegut as a participant in a genre generally considered to have no literary value. This one-dimensional tag was likely the cause of Vonnegut's failure to be included on Esquire's mid-fifties list of "every living American writer of even the slightest merit," an oversight which bothered him for years.
Despite the brilliance of his work of the early sixties (especially Cat's Cradle), the turgid prose of Player Piano and the fantastic setting of Sirens of Titans dogged Vonnegut's reputation into these years. However, among the reading public, his books were selling well enough during this time to merit their reprinting in 1966. He had became increasingly popular among college students, thanks in part to the word of mouth that had led to Sirens of Titan selling for fifty dollars a copy during the years it was out of print.
The first scholarly article to be published on Vonnegut finally appeared in 1966. But Vonnegut's battle to be taken seriously was far from over. Now, however, his popularity, which skyrocketed with the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five, and his vernacular style were used as weapons against him. One critic, Stanley Schatt, criticized his novels as "simplistic philosophy of kindness packaged in sophomoric tales that catered to the whims of unsophisticated readers." While his popularity enabled Vonnegut to devote himself once again to writing full time, critics still found it difficult to believe that a writer could appeal to the masses and still be good.
Despite the doubts of some contemporary critics, Slaughterhouse-Five was the work that sealed Vonnegut's reputation as one of the best authors of the modern age. Nineteen seventy-one became the banner year for academic criticism of Vonnegut, and 1972 saw the first book devoted entirely to Vonnegut's writings.
The analyses of Vonnegut's works have improved as he has aged. Recent titles have tackled such topics as the psychological states of his characters and the paradigm of Eden within his books. Yet, as late as 1989, Robert Merril, editor of Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut, asked for Vonnegut to be "taken more seriously by more critics."
The difficulty of this hinges on the fact of Vonnegut's continued output, which makes every analysis of his opus contingent on his next piece. Yet time will doubtlessly be kind to him, because his works are of lasting merit. One can only wish him to continue to keep critics of his works pleading contingency by continuing to write more of them.
Master List of Characters
Bernard V. O'Hare—Vonnegut's fellow American prisoner of war and peacetime friend; he accompanies Vonnegut on his return back to Dresden.
Mary O' Hare—Bernard's pacifist wife; she accuses Vonnegut of planning to glamorize war.
Billy Pilgrim—The time-travelling protagonist; he primarily varies between being a chaplain's assistant taken prisoner of war by the Germans and between his later life as a successful optometrist.
Barbara Pilgrim—Billy's daughter; she is worried that her father has lost his mind.
Tralfamadorians—According to Billy, creatures from outer space who can see in the fourth dimension (time) and who kidnaps Billy.
Roland Weary—A cruel American soldier; he is thrown together with Billy and two scouts after the Battle of the Bulge.
Billy's mom (no name given)—A sad, quiet woman who tries to make meaning in her life out of things purchased in gift shops.
Paul Lazzaro—A rabid little American soldier who has sworn to make Billy Pilgrim pay for the death of Roland Weary's.
Edgar Derby—A middle-aged American school teacher who will be shot in Dresden for stealing a teapot; he is kind to Billy.
Eliot Rosewater—A patient next to in Billy in the mental ward; he introduces Billy to the works of Kilgore Trout.
Valencia Merble—Billy's fiancée, and later wife; she is overweight and materialistic.
Montana Wildhack—Star of stag movies and Billy's mate in the Tralfamadorian zoo.
Howard W. Campbell, Jr.—An American Nazi propagandist who tries to recruit American P.O.W.s into the "Free American Corps."
Kilgore Trout—A reclusive science fiction author; he becomes friends with Billy.
Maggie White—A beautiful, if simple woman married to one of Billy's fellow optometrists.
Robert Pilgrim—Billy's son, a Green Beret fighting in Vietnam.
Bertram Copeland Rumfoord—A history professor in the hospital with Billy; he refuses to believe Billy was in Dresden.
Lily Rumfoord—Rumfoord's trophy wife.
Wild Bob—A colonel whose regiment has been destroyed, causing his mind to snap; his rantings at the German railyard disturb Billy.
Estimated Reading Time
Slaughterhouse-Five is a simply written and short book. It should take about seven hours to read the entire work. After doing so, it would be good for the student to reread the book to facilitate comprehension of Vonnegut's style.
Summary (Identities & Issues in Literature)
Billy Pilgrim, the central character of Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, The Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death, undergoes experiences close to those of Kurt Vonnegut as an infantryman taken prisoner in World War II. As Billy is, Vonnegut was sent to Dresden and sheltered underground while the city was firebombed in February, 1945. After the bombing Vonnegut was put to work extracting corpses from the rubble and incinerating them. The experience left a deep impression, and he struggled to write about it, finally doing so in this his sixth and most famous novel. A film adaptation appeared in 1972.
Billy Pilgrim is a chaplain's assistant who becomes separated from his unit and who, defenseless and half-starved, is captured by the Germans. He is eventually sent to a camp in Dresden, and put to work in a factory until the firestorm created by allied bombing destroys the city. It is during all this that Billy "comes unstuck in time," his consciousness randomly visiting the future or the past. In those travels he visits the various identities he assumes in his lifetime.
After the war, Billy becomes a prosperous optometrist with a family, but his time travels persist. He also believes aliens from Tralfamadore kidnap him and that he leads another existence there in a Talfamadorian zoo. The Tralfamadorians believe that "whatever is always has been and always will be," so that an event does not just happen but is always "as it...
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Summary (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
Kurt Vonnegut and Bernard V. O'Hare go back to Dresden, Germany, on Guggenheim money in 1967. Before they leave, Vonnegut goes to O'Hare's house and meets his wife, Mary O'Hare. Mary is mad at Vonnegut; she knows he is going to write a book about World War II, and she is sure he is going to make war look glamorous and fun. Vonnegut insists that he is not going to write a book that makes war look good; he will even subtitle the book "The Children's Crusade." This makes her like him, and they start being friends.
While in Dresden, Vonnegut and O'Hare meet a taxi driver. He shows them around the city and shows them the slaughterhouse where they were prisoners during World War II.
When Vonnegut returns from the war, he thinks writing a book about Dresden will be easy. He expects a masterpiece that will make him a lot of money. The words, however, come very slowly and he becomes "an old fart with his memories and his Pall Malls," before he actually writes the book. He likes to call long-lost friends late at night when his wife is asleep and he is drunk, and he likes to listen to talk-radio programs from Boston or New York. He and O'Hare try to remember things about the war, and they have trouble. Vonnegut suggests the climax of his book will come when Edgar Derby is shot by a firing squad for taking a teapot out of the ruins in Dresden. O'Hare does not know where the climax is supposed to be.
Billy Pilgrim is...
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Summary (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
In full, the title, Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, The Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death, says much about Vonnegut's sixth novel. This is the novel in which Vonnegut confronts his traumatic experience of having been in Dresden when, on February 13, 1945, it was bombed by the Allies, producing a firestorm that virtually destroyed the city and killed perhaps 130,000 people. He survived the raid in the underground meat locker of a slaughterhouse, to spend the following days exhuming corpses from the ruins and cremating them. For him, Dresden becomes the symbol of the senseless horror of war, of humankind's self-destructive propensities, and of how events arbitrarily overrule the lives of individuals.
"The Children's Crusade" comes from the wife of a wartime buddy's having said, "You were just babies then!" Vonnegut reflects that they were indeed very young, and the soldiers in his novel are swept along as helplessly as the hapless children of the original medieval Children's Crusade, many of whom were, in fact, sold into slavery. "A Duty-Dance with Death" expresses Vonnegut's need to encounter in words his experience with death, to wrestle with its meaning, or rather, lack of meaning.
In Slaughterhouse-Five, the wartime experience is undergone by his protagonist, Billy Pilgrim. As his name implies, Billy is a kind of universal man-child going through the pilgrimage of life. In this way,...
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Vonnegut's dramatic, tragic younger life greatly influences his fiction and establishes a framework for most of his themes. His immigrant family achieved the grandest of American dreams, only to have its success shattered by economic and political change. Traditional American values such as common sense, self-reliance, and practicality are juxtaposed in his fiction with the absurdity of fate and the folly of humankind. Such folly is epitomized by the bombing of Dresden (now part of East Germany) on February 13, 1945, only a few months before the end of World War II. Dresden was an unarmed, historic city of no military importance, and the motive for the Allied decision to bomb it into oblivion is still a mystery. The two hour bombing killed 135,000 people.
It is against the backdrop of the bombing of Dresden that the dark world of Slaughterhouse-Five emerges. The hauntingly innocent main character, Billy Pilgrim, exudes a childlike wonder that such an atrocity could have been perpetuated. The mythical world of Tralfamadore, a product of Billy's innocence and perhaps of his insanity, stands as an alternative to a world in which nuclear weapons have given humankind the ability to obliterate life on earth.
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Part I—Introduction
Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a man who has come ''unstuck in time.'' At any point in his life, he may find himself suddenly at another point in his past or future. Billy's experiences as an American prisoner of war in Germany during World War II are told in more or less chronological order, but these events are continually interrupted by Billy's travels to various other times in his life.
At several points in the novel, including the whole of Chapter One, Vonnegut addresses the reader directly. In the opening chapter, the author mentions his own real-life experiences as a prisoner of war—in particular, his witnessing of the Allied firebombing of the German city of Dresden—and discusses the difficulties he had over the years in writing about his war experiences. He also tells of his visit with Bernard O'Hare, who was a prisoner along with Vonnegut, and of their trip back to Germany. When O'Hare's wife learns that Vonnegut is planning to write a book about the war, she becomes angry, thinking that Vonnegut will glamorize the war. The author promises her that he will not and that he will call his book ''The Children's Crusade.''
Part II—Billy Pilgrim in the War
Chapter Two begins Billy Pilgrim's story. Born in Ilium, New York, in 1922, Billy is drafted into the Army during World War II. Assigned to the post of chaplin's assistant, Billy is sent...
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Summary and Analysis
Chapter 1 Summary and Analysis
New Characters
Kurt Vonnegut: the author and occasional narrator
Bernard V. O'Hare: Vonnegut's fellow American prisoner of war
Mary O' Hare: Bernard's pacifist wife
Vonnegut begins what is otherwise a work of fiction with some straightforward commentary from the author. Before the fiction begins in Chapter Two, Vonnegut announces that most of Slaughterhouse-Five is based in truth. He was a prisoner of war in Dresden near the end of World War II, and while he was there he witnessed its firebombing by the Allied Forces. He returned to Dresden in 1967, with his friend, Bernard O'Hare, in preparation for writing this book.
Vonnegut says that it has been very difficult for him to write about the destruction of Dresden. He worked on his Dresden book for years, coming back to it again and again. He was told that there was no purpose in his writing a book that would essentially be anti-war, since wars were about as inevitable as glaciers.
Vonnegut initially contacted his friend, Bernard O'Hare, to ask for help in remembering the war. O'Hare said he didn't remember much and was generally unenthusiastic. Vonnegut told him that he thought the climax of his book would be when Edgar Derby was shot for stealing a teapot, a situation which Vonnegut found tremendously ironic.
In his attempts to write this book, Vonnegut had attempted to outline its plot....
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Chapter 2 Summary and Analysis
New Characters
Billy Pilgrim: the time-travelling protagonist; he primarily varies between being a chaplain's assistant taken prisoner of war by the Germans and between his later life as a successful optometrist
Barbara Pilgrim: Billy's worried daughter
Tralfamadorians: according to Billy, creatures from outer space who can see in the fourth dimension (time)
Roland Weary: a cruel American soldier who travels with Billy after the Battle of the Bulge
Billy's mom (no name given): in this chapter, a weak, old lady
Billy Pilgrim is introduced as an involuntary time traveller. After a youth spent in Ilium, New York, Billy is sent to the battlefields of World War II in Europe. After the war, Billy finishes optical school, marries the daughter of his school's founder, and becomes a successful optometrist in Ilium. His grown daughter marries another optometrist, while his juvenile delinquent son straightens out to become a Green Beret and fight in Vietnam.
In 1968, Billy survives an airplane crash. His wife dies accidentally of carbon monoxide poisoning while he was recuperating in the hospital. Back at home, Billy slips off to New York City, where he gets on a radio talk show and announces that he had been kidnapped by space aliens from Tralfamadore, who kept him in a zoo with his mate, the movie starlet Montana Wildhack. After being transported back to Ilium by...
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Chapter 3 Summary and Analysis
New Character
Wild Bob: a colonel whose regiment has been destroyed
After Weary and Billy are captured, they hear the shots of the guns that kill the scouts with whom they had been travelling. Weary is relieved of his weapons, as well as his boots, and is given a pair of wooden clogs.
After taking a brief side trip to his optometry practice in 1967, Billy rejoins the prisoners being marched away from the front. Billy returns to 1967, where he drives through the remains of Ilium's burnt-out ghetto neighborhood. He listens to a Marine major give a speech in favor of increased bombings of North Vietnam at a Lions Club meeting. He drives home for his afternoon nap, which he spends weeping quietly.
Billy opens his eyes to find it is the winter wind that is making them run. Weary, who is marching near him, is also crying, but it is because his feet are being destroyed by his clogs. Billy marvels at the exciting scenery as he walks along, spotting corpses, weapons of mass destruction, and shot-out farmhouses.
The prisoners finally arrive at the railyards. One of the colonels there, who is dying of pneumonia, asks frantically for men from his annihilated regiment. In a delirium, he addresses Billy as if he were his entire body of troops, inviting them all to visit Wild Bob in Cody, Wyoming. Weary is the only member of Wild Bob's regiment at the railyards, but he is in great pain and does...
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Chapter 4 Summary and Analysis
New Characters
Paul Lazzaro: a rabid American with a thirst for revenge
Edgar Derby: a kind, middle-aged American doomed to be shot for stealing a teapot
Billy is unable to sleep the night after his daughter's wedding. He wanders around the house, knowing he is about to be kidnapped by the Tralfamadorians. He watches a movie in reverse time, then imagines it continuing from World War II all the way to Adam and Eve. After watching the movie in regular time, he goes outside and enters the space ship.
Billy asks why he has been taken. A Tralfamadorian tells him that the moment just is, and that there is no "why" to be asked. Billy is stuck like a bug in amber.
The acceleration of the Tralfamadorian ship sends Billy back to his boxcar. He wants to sleep, but his fellow prisoners refuse to let him lie among them because he thrashes in his dreams.
No food is given to the prisoners as they are transported across Germany. In the car ahead of Billy's, Roland Weary dies of gangrene. He tells everyone on his car that he wants Billy to be punished for killing him.
The prisoners finally arrive in a converted extermination camp and leave their boxcars. Billy is given a ridiculous overcoat.
In the camp, the prisoners are stripped prior to delousing. Among the men are Edgar Derby, who comforted Weary as he died, and Paul Lazzaro, who promised Weary he'd get...
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Chapter 5 Summary and Analysis
New Characters
Eliot Rosewater: a patient next to Billy at the insane asylum
Valencia Merble: Billy's fiancée, and later wife
Montana Wildhack: Billy's mate in the Tralfamadorian zoo
Billy reads Valley of the Dolls while he is aboard the spaceship. His captor explains to him the curious Tralfamadorian style of writing, which is like reading several telegrams at the same time.
Passing through a time warp sends Billy to two events on a family vacation in the West when he was twelve. Then he goes back to the prison camp. The Americans are led to a bright shed, from which a troop of Englishmen marches out to meet them. The Englishmen are in excellent shape. They have prepared a feast and entertainment for their American guests.
After setting his coat on fire and shocking the British with his miserable condition (and ridiculous coat), Billy watches a drag performance of Cinderella that makes him so hysterical he has to be carried out and given a shot of morphine. He is watched over in the prison hospital by Edgar Derby, who reads to him from The Red Badge of Courage.
Billy dreams, then time travels to 1948, where he is a patient at a mental ward in Lake Placid. In the bed next to Billy's is Eliot Rosewater, who also is finding life meaningless. Rosewater has brought with him his beloved collection of science fiction books by Kilgore Trout....
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Chapters 6-7 Summary and Analysis
Billy returns, confused, to his German prison. He finds himself strangely drawn to his coat, which appears to contain two small lumps within the lining.
The Englishman who broke Paul Lazarro's arm returns to check on him. Lazarro says he is going to have him killed someday. After the other man leaves, Lazarro tells Billy that he is going to have him killed after the war, too.
Billy knows that his death is going to occur in 1976, after he gives a speech about Tralfamadore in Chicago. At this time, Billy has become very popular. He is shot by a laser gun wielded by Paul Lazarro, who has been hiding in the press box.
Billy comes back to life in 1945. He and his two companions leave the hospital and go into what used to be the Englishmen's theater. An Englishman tells the Americans they are going to be leaving the camp. They will be sent to Dresden. Fortunately, they don't need to worry about being bombed, because Dresden engages in no significant war industries.
The Americans, feeling much better, leave for Dresden. They find the city amazingly beautiful. Vonnegut says it looks like Oz. It is the only big city in Germany that has not suffered a bombing attack.
Billy, looking ridiculous, leads the parade of Americans into the town. He knows it is going to be bombed in about a month. He is verbally abused by a German surgeon for his appearance. Billy wields the mysterious contents of...
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Chapter 8 Summary and Analysis
New Characters
Howard W. Campbell, Jr.: an American Nazi propagandist
Kilgore Trout: a reclusive science fiction author
Maggie White: a beautiful, if simple, woman married to an optometrist
Robert: Billy's son, the future Green Beret
Howard Campbell comes to the American prisoners. He wants to recruit them to fight against the Russians. He bribes the weary, undernourished men with promises of good food.
Surprisingly, Edgar Derby stands against Campbell's poisonous promises. He says that the Americans are going to unite with the Russians to crush Nazism. Then the air-raid siren starts to sound. All the men, including Campbell, hide in a meat locker far under the ground. However, no bombs fall, as they aren't scheduled to fall until the next day.
That night, Billy returns to the argument with his daughter. She expresses anger at Kilgore Trout, whom she blames for her father's problems. Trout is living in Ilium, where he works as a circulation manager for the local newspaper. Billy meets him in 1964. Billy is as amazed to find Trout as Trout is amazed to find someone who has read his books. Billy invites Trout to his eighteenth wedding anniversary party.
Because he is the only person at the party who is not an optometrist, Trout is a great hit. He tells Maggie White all sorts of lies about his work. The optometrist barbershop quartet begins to...
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Chapters 9-10 Summary and Analysis
New Characters
Bertram Copeland Rumfoord: a history professor writing on Dresden
Lily Rumfoord: Rumfoord's trophy wife
After she hears Billy's airplane has crashed, the hysterical Valencia rushes to the hospital, ripping the exhaust system off her car in an accident en route. Immediately after arriving, she is overcome by carbon monoxide poisoning. Shortly thereafter, she dies.
Billy is still unconscious. He is sharing a room with Bertram Rumfoord. Rumfoord's wife, Lily, brings Bertram books for the history of the United States Army Air Corps in World War II that he is writing. Rumfoord makes Lily read Truman's statement on the necessity of bombing Hiroshima.
Although Billy finally regains consciousness, he says little and is believed to be a vegetable. Rumfoord finds him to be disgusting and wonders out loud why the doctors don't let Billy die.
Rumfoord is having problems with his book because the parts on Dresden are going to be new. The Air Force and the American government had previously attempted to keep their success in Dresden a secret from the American public. After Rumfoord expresses his frustration to Lily, Billy says that he was there.
For a long time Rumfoord refuses to acknowledge that Billy is addressing him instead of echoing him. Billy finally speaks to him after a long silence, but Rumfoord doesn't believe Billy was in Dresden.
...(The entire section is 2285 words.)
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"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"
-- Matthew 22.21
I had the misfortune recently of stumbling across a movie documentary, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" narrated by Ben Stein, as I was channel-surfing with my eldest daughter following the evening news. The movie's basic premise was to expose the scientific communities' conspiracy to prevent intelligent design "theory" to be taught in America's public schools and presented as science in publicly-funded museums. This was accomplished through a dizzying array of disturbing Nazi images and eugenics references that were confusingly related to fantasy elitist, freedom-of-speech crushing, atheist, Darwinians who have killed God with the Theory of Evolution.
To say the least, I found the movie somewhat biased. Granted, I am not the film critic for U.S. Medicine, but the confusion engendered in my high school- aged daughter from this thinly- veiled attack on science, masquerading as a documentary film, concerned me greatly. On the other hand, it did provide me with the unique opportunity to discuss the difference between science and religion with my bright (frighteningly so) daughter.
I had a favorite professor in college chemistry who began my first semester of physical chemistry by stating, "I am here to describe 'how' atoms and molecules interact to form the physical world. If you are interested in 'why' they do so, well, you are in the wrong class." This basic depiction of the fundamental differences between science and philosophy/religion has served me well throughout my federal medicine career. Science is the physical world, viewed through the lens of empiricism and ruled by the scientific method to explain 'how' things work. Religion and philosophy deal with existence, are beyond empirical analysis and dwell with questions of 'why' things are. Admittedly, I have been a student of science and a follower of its rules my entire professional life. I am not a religious man. Even so, I would not presume to place science as superior or inferior to religion, just fundamentally different. What disturbed me so much about the movie "Expelled" was its suggestion that scientists despise religion.
Certainly the Theory of Evolution, so elegantly presented in Charles Darwin's 1859 book, "On the Origin of Species," forms a foundation for the practice of modern medicine. Empirical evidence for how evolution has influenced life on this planet abounds. It quite literally, if you will, is in our DNA. The study of evolution is certainly worthy of a science class where young minds begin the journey of scientific inquiry that leads eventually to a professional medical degree. The explanation for how nature works, provided by the Theory of Evolution, is a powerful tool in the science of medicine.
I have also experienced that side of medicine that defies empirical explanation — like the unshakable faith of Father Patrick Kenny, or "Father Pat," to those who worked at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He seemed incapable of sadness and always lifted others' spirits with just a "Hello," and his ever-present grin. Father Pat was no scientist, but no less vital to the daily function of the hospital in providing compassionate care to the sick and injured. Like many other medical scientists at Walter Reed, I was keenly aware of the loss sustained by our community when Father Pat passed away on November 25, 2009, in the hospital he so faithfully served. From my perspective, there was no conflict between Father Pat's healing arts sustained in faith and mine maintained in science. In fact, what I observed was synergy in our efforts.
The tragedy of "Expelled" is its utter failure in helping the layperson, our patients, to understand the difference between the "how" of science and the "why" of religion. Instead, through shocking images of our troubled 20th century and unfounded demagoguery, the film pits science against religion. Even more fantastically, the film ends with the ridiculous suggestion that Darwin's theories led to Hitler's Nazi regime and the suffering of countless thousands.
As federal medicine providers, we must be aware of the disinformation that our patients are bombarded with daily in our information focused society. I have always maintained that it is not enough to just prescribe and recommend to our patients on how to achieve health; we must also educate them on the science that supports these recommendations. We must also acknowledge when our patients' needs transcend our science and show equal respect to their beliefs. Part of being a good provider is the understanding of what is Caesar's, and what is not, and having the wisdom to help our patients appreciate the difference.
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I have not personally seen the documentary that this editor is referring to but he seems to think that his statements are not at all controversial and everyone should agree with him. From what I've heard of the documentary, I believe that the premise is that evolution leads to a degradation of the inherent value of every single person in society and that is why the reference to eugenics.
I also do not see how this debate on evolution discussions in schools is related to evidence based medicine and belongs in this publication. Like the other person said, we all work together side by side for the patient's benefit, regardless of our personal beliefs in evolution vs creation. Why attack another colleague's beliefs?
I personally believe that micro-evolution is evidenced in our DNA but not that human beings evolved from apes but rather designed by a creator God who desires a personal relationship with each and every one of us. That leads me to believe that human beings are inherently worthy and why ultimately I practice medicine.
"Certainly the [evolution theory]... forms a foundation for the practice of modern medicine." My experience does not confirm this statement; an appreciation of evolution does not seem relevant to my practice, so far. Would you please elaborate about how it has formed the foundation for your own medical practice? I simply don't yet understand how it could. Thanks in advance.
This reply is for Tazia question. I will give three examples.
Fight/Flight/or Faint (vagal rxn reflex for humans) when aproached by IV insertion. All three illustrated by humans and other animals under stress situations. Different rxns to same stimulus may have evolution benefits/risks. Possum goes catatonic and so do some of my patients.
Next Pain. Pain fibers good for those who have none such as Leprosy. If they have feed back of pain, they would not be so prone to injury. But most chronic pain patients want just the opposite. Amount of pain fibers has evolution impact on the survival of individuals/populations.
Next is "humanity" treatment of "other" human beings. Do we treat the other as comodity or "the help" or do we treat every individual human being equal since conception or human zygote? Look at original Declaration of Geneva 1948 and see how we as medical profession have not met goal--- since Roe vs Wade 1973 and today with Plan B.
I would politely disagree with the posters who questioned the appropriateness of this article in this venue. As a psychiatrist I find it important to discuss my patient's religious and philosophical beliefs to better understand them and potentially help them.
It is important for us, as health-care providers, to realize that not everyone happens to share our particular belief systems, and if someone wishes to believe that God is a '49 Cadillac in a wheat field in Kansas, we simply have respect that (although I'm not so sure about Scientology)
For what it is worth, IMHO, there will always be modern day Luddites. You've always done a great job, keep the articles coming Trip! :-)
If we want to point our patients toward good information in a documentary, we should recommend "Forks over Knives," a fantastic treatment of The China Study.
Although Federal History and Laws support religious statments or "motto" (this motto was passed as Federal Law by Congress) such as IN GOD WE TRUST, the Federal law shall not make a specific denominational pronouncement, while respecting the freedom of religion free speach in its individuals. Scripture prior to Jesus of Nazareth, and after is usefull, but would not expect the Federal Law or Tax dollar to mandatorily support. The individual that made the scripture statement wanted your spiritual attention even though He gave his physical body up for ALL. I read Koran and Scripture in Hebrew traditions also and find them usefull also. No statue should be made of any human being nor of any image on earth or heaven. Darwin and God/Creator explain the evolution of man's evolement and growth and end.
Thank you for your thoughts. I am wondering, however, why you felt they needed to be expressed in U.S. Medicine when they are certainly more controversial than you seem to admit, and they do not actually directly affect patient care in the way that you are claiming. If a healthcare provider does see a deep foundational divide in the way that they are viewing the origins of human life compared to the way that other colleagues are viewing those origins, and yet they are able to work side by side in a collegial, patient-centered way, then why attack the foundational beliefs of those providers?
I wonder why a federal publication sees it necessary to discuss this issue. This is a scientific newsletter and should stick to evidence based articles about what we do, and that is practice medicine. Having said that, I relaize an editorial has a lot of leeway and I personally agree with everything said. However, I'm not certain U.S. Medicine is the right forum.
Your comments are balanced and very well stated.
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This 5 star resort hotel is about 10 minutes drive from Waikiki, around from Diamond Head. The hotel was the Kahala Hilton, until bought by the Mandarin group in 1995. It is an old hotel dating back to the 1960s. The exterior of the buildings reflect this. The hotel from the outside has a tired look about it. On arriving at the porte corche it is an impressive site. Through the reception and lobby you can see a waterfall in the background, and a huge lagoon below. The lobby was attended by 3 receptionists, and check-in was fast enough and cordial. The booking, which had only been made an hour or two before was in the hotel's system. I had requested a king bed non-smoking room, but was told as the hotel could not meet the request I would be upgraded to a room with a balcony. The attendant then took me to the second floor. Immediately adjacent to the lift lobby was room 202. I was directed in to a large room overlooking the mountain ridge. The room had two queen beds. I was taken through to the bathroom, and was then advised this was a disabled room. I then saw the attendant off and noticed the room was also a smoking room. Not that there was a smell, there simply was an ash tray and a book of matches on the desk. At check-in I was given a plastic tortoise toy and told it could be exchanged at the pool bar for a non-alcoholic cocktail. The room was very large, coming off a large hallway which also housed a mini-bar fridge, and freshly stocked ice bucket. There was a large comfy two-seater lounge, a work desk with lamp, phone with Internet data port, compendiums, and a lamp shade. There was no spare power point for a laptop, so I had to disconnect one of the lamps. There were two queen beds as noted previously, with large timber headboards and posters at the head. There was a large bedside dresser table in-between, with a CD and radio player, and two discs with Hawaiian music. The bed was fantastic, extremely comfortable. There were foot stools, large, at the end of each bed. Air-conditioning and lighting in the room was adequate. The bathroom was very large with railings all round to assist wheelchair-bound guests. The separate shower was twice the size of a normal shower. There was a separate toilet, open (no door) and a bathroom with full size bath, plenty of lighting, plenty of bench space, and luxurious guest amenities. The floor of the bedroom was timber tiled with a larget carpet rug over the top. The balcony was extremel;y large with outdoor table and two chairs. The view over the mountain range, and ridge was terrrific and there were glimpses of the lagoon and the waterfall. Half the rooms in the tower overlook the ocean, and the balance over the 'ridge'. There are also lagoon side rooms. A walk through the grounds was next. There was a major, deep blue coloured pool, a spa (whirlpool), forests and trees, and the lagoon, magnificent. In the pool there were at least three dolphins, lots of fish and tortoises. The grounds were really good, and the kids loved them. The beach ran along side and was fine. A great hotel, a little tired, but still with all the attributes that have charmed a great many famous people over the years.


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Another girl has my husband's heart
She bats her fluffy eyelashes at him, and he comes running.
A smile from her will pull him away from any conversation we might be having at the time.
One whimper from her, and he is running around like a chicken with its head cut off, determined to find a way to calm her down.
And when she said "Dadda" for the first time this week, he melted on the very spot.
Yes, our daughter Elsie has taken the supreme position of "top female" in Jason's life.
From the second she arrived in this world, he has been under her spell.
The first giggle, smile and wave made a big hit with Jason. But when she finally said "Daddy," or something really close to it, it was all over for him. And considering it was her first word ever...he's loving it.
I'll let Jason have his moment. I had mine with our son James. His first word was "Momma."
I must admit, however, it's funny to watch just how much "daddy's little girl" has her daddy really wrapped. All you have to do is compare the way Jason treats our son with how he treats her.
When James runs inside with a bloody knee or a scrape on his arm, Jason checks it out to make sure it isn't serious.
If it's not a hospital visit, Jason tells him to "shake it off."
I am usually the one that comes behind him with some medicine and a bandage.
When Elsie bumps her head slightly on a table, Jason is pushing me out of the way to pick up her up. I literally was shoved into the china cabinet one night when she ran into the dining room table.
Elsie is immediately swept into his arms. Every part of her body is checked. He showers her with kisses. And he would put a wrap around her head if I let him.
When James gets into trouble, Jason is quick to put him in time out, give a firm talking or whatever the situation calls for.
I raised my voice to Elsie the other morning to stay away from some cords, and I am the one who got yelled at.
"Don't you raise your voice to her," he told me.
"What," I asked. "You've got to start letting her know what she can't do. You don't have a problem getting on to to James."
"Well, that's different," he said, picking up Elsie. "She's a little girl."
I stood in silence as he escorted Elsie out of the room, explaining to her how "I didn't mean it."
James sat on the couch and took a huff of breath. At least he understands, I thought to myself.
I can only imagine how this will play out as the children get older.
I'm sure Jason will slip Elsie that extra cupcake. He will never spank her, unless it gets really, really bad. One cry from her will lead to a full investigation from him. And when she starts dating, he'll probably act as chaperone until she's 30 years old.
Of course, I can understand where he is coming from. I tend to do the same thing with James.
If Elsie is daddy's little princess, then James is momma's little prince.
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