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Why did Kurt Vonnegut make Billy Pilgrim so intertwined in the novel, and why was he the primary focus?

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What is the real reason the barbershop quartet upsets Billy?

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What was Billy's being "unstuck in time" representative of?

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Is there a reason Billy's death took place on February 13, 1976, Friday the 13th? Is that date symbolic to Vonnegut?

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Is Billy Pilgrim sane or insane?

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What is the significance behind blue and ivory.

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Is what the Tralfamadorians saying true or is it all a lie told to Billy

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Was Kurt Vonnegut under the influence of any drugs when he was riding this book? If so can we see any possible drug related connections from the different ideas that he expresses?

Was Edgar Derby representative of one of Kurt's war friends that died? Is that why he made Edgar die in the book? If not what was the purpose of having him caught and killed?

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What is symbolic about the name Billy?

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Is Billy Pilgrim sane or insane? do we even know for sure?

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Why Tralfamadore? Why the name, why the aliens, and why do they have the beliefs they do? Are they just an odd delusion or are they actually meant to make little sense?

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How is Billy's jacket magic?
Why was the death of Edgar Derby talked about so much but received a small section in the book to describe the events?

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What does Kurt Vonnegut mean by "free will?"

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Why did the Tralfamadorians not need Billy anymore? What happened to cause that?

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Why did Vonnegut choose to have the United States balkanized?

Why do the Tralfamadorians believe that time is structured the way it is and that the future cannot be changed?

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What ever happened to the Tralfamadorians? Did they just go on living? Why didn't they need Billy any more? What about Billy's baby on Tralfamadore? Did Montana Wildhack ever say anything about it? What's symbolic about the fact that the man in Dresden was killed over an insignificant tea-pot? Why did Billy die such an unheroic death after everything he'd been through in his life?

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At the end of the book when the war ends, and Billy enters the streets, what is the symbolic meaning of the bird he hears that chirps or states ¨Poo-tee-Weet¨? Is there an underlying meaning or is the meaning as simple as the saying? And at the end of the book, why focus on death  especially
from Darwin's outlook ?

Also in Chapter 6, pg 145, what does Vonnegut mean when he states ¨The boots fit perfectly. Billy Pilgrim was Cinderella and Cinderella was Billy Pilgrim?¨

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What happens the entire time between Billy's news fiasco and his assassination?

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In chapter 5 on page 98... why was Billy taken to the hospital and tied down then doped up with some morphine? And is there some significance about him dreaming of the giraffes?

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Was a major theme of this book the illusion of free will?

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Throughout the book, Billy was ridiculed by others and constantly looked down upon. Was there a specific thing that made him become an outcast, or was he seen in that way his entire life?