SlaughterHouse-Five #1

In SlaughterHouse-Five written by Kurt Vonnegut, the reader is taken through a journey that involves a man named Billy Pilgrim. But before Billy is properly introduced, a chapter is written from actual Kurt Vonnegut's point of view that makes me wonder who Billy Pilgrim is representing. Vonnegut writes the intro chapter of this book from his own personal point of view describing some things about himself and the war that are semi-hard to understand and relate to the next chapter. I found myself confused because I had trouble understanding what carried in seriousness from the first chapter to the next. It seems that some key phrases and concepts are repeated frequently by the author, but interestingly enough they are even repeated from the first chapter into the second that has a very different storyline.
See the end of the first draws me to the conclusion that we are moving on from the first to start something new and different. His introduction of Billy is what really makes me think. Why not tell the story from his own point of view if this is a story he has been working on for years? I would like to know if really Billy is Mr. Vonnegut and he is telling the story from this interesting point of view because of the impossible actions taken via time-travel. I hope that in time I will come to have a greater understanding of who this Billy Pilgrim really is and know wether or not Vonnegut knew him. The way that Mr. Vonnegut writes, "People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore,"(22) makes me really wonder this book is a sort of reminiscing of a different sort.