Part one of term paper
Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, the main character, in chronological order, starting with Billy's capture and imprisonment by Germany during World War II. This story is interspersed with incidents of Billy's life on earth before and after the war, and from his fantasy voyage to the planet Tralfamadore. The plot is some ...

Part two of term paper
... his frustrating desire to write a novel about the war. However, he is not able to remember much about the war. Vonnegut travels with Bernard V. O'Hare in Dresden in 1967. While in a taxi, they see the slaughterhouse where they had been kept as prisoners during World War II. We are slowly introduced to Billy Pilgrim, who was born in Illium, New York, in 1922. He is tall and weak, and not ambitious. He became rich partly by his good fortune an partly because he marries a rich woman. ...