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(1) a quote or a character's line from the novel (page number)

(2) the scene's or the event's significance in the narrative

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1) Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

2) He is unstuck. Affecting Billy and the narrative.

yoon changhee

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(1) All moments, past, present, and future have existed, always will exist (page 27)

(2) I believe this goes back on how important looking back is, as to which the narrator first defined the book as a failure.

Trisha Maye Santillan

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All this happened, more or less

Muhammad Ahmed

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Repetitive phrase that continues throughout the novel.

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"You were just babies then!' she said." (pg. 14, Ch. 1)

Vonnegut was shocked after hearing this from Mary O'Hare, even chose the sub title of the book as <The children's Crusade>

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Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren't necessarily fun.

Muhammad Ahmed

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1) And then, without any warning, illy went to New York City, and got on an all-night radio program devoted to talk.

2) This is the first time people noticed Billy's unstuckness in time. What everyone observed and is ground truth.

yoon changhee

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All I could say was, "I know, I know, I know." p.10

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All I could say was, "I know, I know, I know." p.10

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In context of receiving a response to telling a professor about his experience in the raids, who then tells the author about the concentration camps. It's implied to be a justification of the happenings of Dresden, of which our author responds with a series of exasperated, yet non-argumentative responses.

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'You shouldn't even be in the Army,' said Weary. (p.26, Ch. 2)

This quote directly shows that they were far from heroes; even themselves did not considered them as heroes.

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" you were just baby then"

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(1) "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time" (23p)

(2) This moment introduces the condition of Billy. He is randomly moving through time of his past, present, and future.

(SO Yoosuk)

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"Billy was helped to his feet by the lovely boy...The most dangerous thing they found on his person was a two-inch pencil stub."

(53-54)

Billy and Weary are captured by the Germans.

Joshua Mariano

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"Among the things Billy pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future"

Muhammad Ahmed

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1) "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them."

2) Her words gave Vonnegut the main idea for the entire book. Because of what she said, he promised he would not make war look cool, exciting, or heroic. This shows why the book is anti-war and why the main character is shown as an anti-hero instead of a traditional, "glamorous" movie-star soldier.

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"He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo."

This describes how out-of-place Billy looks (and is) on the WW2 battlefield.

Chaemin Lee

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"Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"' (pg. 3, Ch. 1)

We can know the writer's feelings towards the war, which is more of a foolish disaster rather than a heroic event.

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It is so short and messy and jumbled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. p.19

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It is so short and messy and jumbled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. p.19

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This emcompasses the entire book's thesis, the parahgraph then going on to introduce us to the book's final words, "Poo=tee-weet."

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'I say, "Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"'

Showing the aspect that war will never be banished in human society

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In went water and loaves of black bread and sausage and cheese, and out came shit and piss and language.

Muhammad Ahmed

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(1) "There isn't anything we can do about them, so we simply don't look at them. We ignore them."

(2) Billie asked Tralfamadorians how to become peaceful and Tralfamadorians said they can't prevent that moments but we can ignore and just concentrate on good moments.

Juha Hwang

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1) "Get out of the road, you dumb motherfucker." ... Billy wouldn't do anything to save himself. Billy wanted to quit.

2) Describes well Billy and Weary in war.

yoon changhee

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"Early in 1968, a group of optometrists, with Billy among them, charted an airplane to fly them from Ilium to an international convention... Everyone was killed but Billy. So it goes." (26)

The tragic crash sets the stage for Billy's sudden madness (going on about Tralfamadore).

Joshua Mariano

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(1) "When I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'So it goes.'" (27p)

(2) This line shows that Billy copes with death. The phrase "So it goes" shows Billy's dullness to death. He survives many death gates and appears to be resigned to death.

(So yoosuk)

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He tried to remember how old he was, couldn't. He tried to remember what year it was. He couldn't remember

that, either. (pg. 28, Ch.2)

shows how he was confused and seen as not understandable in others' perspective.

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"After his honorable discharge from the Army in 1945, Billy again enrolled in the Ilium School of Optometry. During his senior year there, he became engaged to the daughter of the founder and owner of the school, and then suffered a mild nervous collapse."

This shows early indications of the negative psychological effects that Billy's experiences in the war had on him.

Chaemin Lee

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"I think the climax of the book will be the execution of poor old Edgar Derby"..."The irony is so great. A whole city gets..." (page 5)

This tells how the author first expressed excitement on writing the book, perhaps sensationalizing some events that would be seen to have shock value for entertainment, to which he later changes his mind on, and possibly the reason why he ended up choosing to write in a nonlinear fashion

Trisha Santillan

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"He was the only survivor of the plane crash"

(So yoosuk)

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So it goes (p.6)

Hong-il Kim

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Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. (p.23)

Hong-il Kim

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Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

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Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

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Time didn’t feel linear — it felt like a scar, looping over the same pain again and again.

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"Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present and the

future." (pg. 60, Ch. 3)

This shows the fatalism of Billy Pilgrim, that the time travel is not free. It's more of a giving up his fate.

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It was absolutely necessary that cruelty be used, because Billy wouldn't do anything to save himself

(2) Tells us about Billy's experience in the war, and how the violence he's experiencing prevented him from differentiating between life and death

Trisha Maye Santillan

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(1) "He was powerless to harm the enemy or to help his friends." (30)

(2) Reveals human helplessness and the futility of war; Billy as an antihero.

JiYoon Jeon

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"He [Billy] was needed in the headquarters company of an infantry regiment fighting in Luxembourg. The regimental chaplain's assisstant had been killed in action." (32)

Billy is sent to Europe, and it becomes clear he wasn't the type to change the outcome of a battle.

Joshua Mariano

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1) "He was stopped by a signal in the middle of Ilium's black ghetto. The people who lived here hated it so much that they had burned down a lot of it a month before. It was all they had, and they'd wrecked it. The neighborhood reminded Billy of some of the towns he had seen in the war."

2) This shows that terrible things like violence, hate, and pointless destruction arent things that happen only during war, and that they happen everywhere, all the time. It makes Billy feel that he cant change anything and makes him accept that life is chaotic and meaningless and that he can't control what happens.

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"I'll call it the children's crusade. she was my friend after that"

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He didn’t look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

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He didn’t look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

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It was sadder that the war looked ridiculous as if horror had lost even its dignity.

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That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that

matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?' (pg.37, Ch.3)

shows how differently the Tralfamadorians and human recognizes reality. It further gives the readers impression that Billy is unable to resolve the circumstance by himself at all, having no control at all.

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He never got mad at anything. ... "There is no such planet as Tralfamadore." "It can't be detected from Earth, if that's what you mean," said Billy. (p.30)

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He never got mad at anything. ... "There is no such planet as Tralfamadore." "It can't be detected from Earth, if that's what you mean," said Billy. (p.30)

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--> This quote emphasises that while Billy is mentally unstable, he never gets mad (and only gets the others mad) because his understanding of the world is one dimension higher than others. This is an important characterization of Billy as a character - he is not the stereotypical, hysteric person with mental illness.

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He told Billy to encourage people to call him Billy ... It would also make him slightly magical, because there weren't any grown Billys around. It also compelled people to think of him as a friend right away. (p.46)

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He told Billy to encourage people to call him Billy ... It would also make him slightly magical, because there weren't any grown Billys around. It also compelled people to think of him as a friend right away. (p.46)

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--> The adjective "magical" makes Billy's Tralfamadore story a bit more convincing to the reader; maybe he is not just a mentally ill person. Also, we get a hint about how strangers might treat Billy like a friend further in the story.

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(1) Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. (23p)

(2) This sentence marks the beginning of Billy’s time travel and introduces the nonlinear structure of the novel.

Seunghwan Park

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"But the colonel imagined that he was addressing his beloved troops for the last time ... He said all this while staring into Billy's eyes. He made the inside of poor Billy's skull echo with balderdash."

This is a bit of a tragic scene where a dying colonel basically hallucinates his dead squad members in Billy.

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He tried to remember how old he was, couldn’t. He tried to remember what year it was. He couldn’t remember that, either.

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He tried to remember how old he was, couldn’t. He tried to remember what year it was. He couldn’t remember that, either.

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This moment reveals Billy’s complete disconnection from the continuity of time. Unable to recall his age or the year, he no longer inhabits the present but floats somewhere between past and future. His loss of memory becomes the loss of identity itself in the most silent wound left by war.

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They called themselves 'The Three Musketeers.' (pg. 42, Ch. 2)

Weary's thoughts on how he feels about himself and his colleagues. More like a heroism.

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(1) "He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes."

(2) Narrator was explaining about taxi driver, Gerhard Muller. The explanation was very contrasting and shocked, but he just accepted.

Juha Hwang

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(64) "... At each road intersection Billy's group was joined by more Americans with their hands on top of their haloed hands. Billy had smiles for them all."

He is captured and forced to move barefoot with numerous Americans. This may imply his experienced terror about forced mobilization by enemy soldiers and oppressors that sustains after actual war, considering he remembers the miserable incident happened in 1967, which is clearly after World War II and total liquidation of Nazi faction.

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"Billy first came unstuck in time in 1944, long before his trip to Tralfamadore" (30)

The first time Billy got "unstuck" happened during his war experience, right when he was about to give up on his life it seemed; could time travel be him developing a coping mechanism and carrying it through his whole life like many soldiers develop PTSD and are forever haunted with traumatic visions?

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(25) "Early in 1968, a group of optometrists, with Billy among them, chartered an airplane to fly them from Ilium to an international convention of optometrists in Montreal. The plane crashed on top of Sugarbush Mountain, in Vermont. Everybody was killed but Billy. So it goes."

It is believed this moment is where Billy truly embarked on his misadventure throughout the book - In the wake of his cerebral trauma, he gains an opportunity to remember and reconsider his memories and tragedy about the war befallen to him. He travels from his past to his redesigned present and future.

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(1) "What are we going to do with you? Are you going to force us to put you where your mother is?"

(2) Billy's daughter was very rude but Billy didn't get angry. He was just telling the fact that he knows calmly.

Juha Hwang

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"They were damned if they'd surrender. They shook hands all around. They called themselves "The three Musketeers"." (p. 42)

In this fantasy of Ronald's we can see his childish attitude towards the war and the predicament he is in with Billy and scouts. He is still a kid, still naive and not used to taking things as seriously as they should be.

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(58) "Billy's smile as he came out of the shrubbery was at least as peculiar as Mona Lisa's, for he was simultaneously on foot in Germany in 1944 and riding his Cadillac in 1967. Germany dropped away, and 1967 became bright and clear, free of interference from any other time."

His "unstuck-in-time" also released him from living in a fixed moment. His temporal perception now allows a sudden leap or superposition over the gap of years and decades of his life. In such distorted form of "time traveling", he both avoids being washed out by a certain tragic memory and finds his existence and senses resurrected by rush of endless, unorganized moments.

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"Among the things Billy couldn't change were the past present and future" (p. 60)

This part describes the melancholy Billy feels when met with futility of his efforts. He can only accept it and keep going as he says.

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(1) He didn’t look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

(2) This description emphasizes Billy Pilgrim’s physical and psychological unfitness for war. Billy appears awkward, weak, and out of place — a symbol of the ordinary, powerless individual thrown into the chaos of war.

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(1) All moments, past, present, and future have existed, always will exist. (27)

(2) This quote expresses that every moment exists simultaneously and eternally. For Billy, this philosophy provides a way to cope with trauma and death by accepting them as fixed parts of existence.

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1) There isn't anything we can do about them, so we simply don't look at them. We ignore them. We spend eternity looking at pleasant moments.

2) By conversation at Tralfamadore zoo, shows how Tralfamadorians think about changing cause effect.

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1) his happiest moment his sun-drenched snooze in the back of the wagon.

2) Shows Billy after bombing in Dresden.