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Bookmark or Share- Slaughterhouse-Five - WikipediaSlaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction -infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years.
- Slaughterhouse-Five: Character List - SparkNotesBilly Pilgrim is the protagonist of the novel who believes he has “come unstuck in time.” He walks through a door at one moment in his life and suddenly finds himself in another time and place.
- Billy Pilgrim - Kurt Vonnegut wikiBilly Pilgrim is the main character in the novel Slaughterhouse Five. He served in Word War II and witnessed the bombing of Dresden as a prisoner of the Germans. Later in life, he became an optomitrist and married a woman named Valencia.
- Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five Character Analysis - ShmoopAs a witness to terrible violence, Billy Pilgrim struggles more than most to find a way to explain how life can be so unfair and meaningless. Billy's trauma over the war is so severe that he has to leave Earth (either in his mind or for real) to find comfort after all the violence he has seen.
- Slaughterhouse-Five: Full Book Summary - SparkNotesBilly Pilgrim is born in 1922 and grows up in Ilium, New York. A funny-looking, weak youth, he does reasonably well in high school, enrolls in night classes at the Ilium School of Optometry, and is drafted into the army during World War II.
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