Vonnegut
Billy Pilgrim
In the fiction novel "Slaughterhouse - Five" by Kurt Vonnegut, there are many interesting and maybe sometimes strange characters. One in particular is Billy Pilgrim which is the protagonist of the novel. Billy is a World War II veteran, prospering optometrist, husnband, and father. Billy is a character who believes that he has become "unstuck in time". For example in the novel the narrator states that Billy may walk through a door in 1955 and come out another door in 1941. The author uses Billy's belief in order to tell his story and use unusual literary techniques.
Billy Pilgrim can be seen as an unlikely antiwar hero because he has always been a weakling even before the war, since he perfers sinking to swimming, and he becomes somewhat of a joke as a soldier, as Billy was always saved by one of his fellow infantrymen. Billy also gets sent into duty at the Battle of the Bulge without any weapons training, without any weapons, and even with an improper uniform.......
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