Near the end if section two in our reading, I think that I found a place where my Vonnegut may have led the readers to believe that Billy was actually only dreaming about the time travel. He writes that Billy time travels and then writes that, "He had had a wet dream about Montana Wildhack,"(134), which indicates that during his "time travel" he managed to have a dream about what happened to him during his time travel. I find that to be very unlikely and seriously wonder if Mr. Vonnegut is cuing us in on something bigger. Maybe Billy is just a crazy dude, I guess I'll just have to read more to find out.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Slaughterhouse-Five #3
In Slaughterhouse-five written by Kurt Vonnegut, Billy continues to journey through time and space to a different planet where his life is controlled and run by aliens. These aliens have him do strange things and I'm beginning to wonder whether any of that story line is too. I'm not sure what the literary term for intertwining two stories at one is called, but Mr. Vonnegut accomplishes this wonderfully. He has two stories of Billy going at once via time travel and within these many insertions of random stories and facts that contribute or apply in some way to the development of Billy over time. These continually cause me to go back and read and look for connections to the rest of the book.
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