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"Billy was a giraffe, too. [...] The giraffes accepted Billy as one of their own, as a harmless creature as preposterously specialized as themselves." (Vonnegut 126)
Seems to be an escape and a completely different feel compared to the real world. In reality, Billy has experienced war and loss. Being an animal, he is surrounded by others like him (other giraffes) in a world that is beautiful and filled with peace and serenity.

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"Kilgore Trout became Billy's favorite living author, and science fiction became the only sort of tales he could read" (Vonnegut 101)
Billy's use of Science fiction to provide a sense of escapism to him and represents his desire to escape the situation he's been put through due to the war.

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"Billy was told to hang the tag around his neck along with his American dogtags, which he did. The tag was like a salt cracker, perforated down its middle so that a strong man could snap it in two with his bare hands" (Vonnegut 92).
The dogtags symbolize how quick life is and how it is fragile like a cracker. Life could break at any moment.

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"  She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all," (Vonnegut 48).

His mother symbolizes the personification of who he  wants and should be. He feels guilty that he himself can't find the motivation to live yet his mother tries so hard for him to continue his life and prosper.

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" He was twelve years old, quaking as he stood with his mother and father on Bright Angel Point, at the rim of Grand Canyon. The little human family was staring at the floor of the canyon, one mile straight down... Billy hated the canyon. He was sure that he was going to fall in. His mother touched him, and he wet his pants," (Vonnegut 42).

The canyon is a symbol of his constant fear of death. Since he was young the fear he would fall over the edge always followed him. Where his mother saw a beautiful landscape, Billy immediately recognized that his life could end in an instant by going off the edge into the canyon. He emphasizes that they are a "human" family which highlights that they are very fallible.

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"This poor earthling, and his head was incased in a steel sphere which he could never take off. There was one eyehole... he had no choice but to say, 'that's life.' (Vonnegut 115)

The imagery of the human being locked in steel case never to be removed exaggerates the imperfectness of humans. The quote brings to light the little amount of knowledge we have and irony of our misunderstandings. We only see a small portion of reality and yet, we simply accept it as it is. By saying, "that's life," is used to humiliate humans in this quote. The tralfamadorians try and reveal our stubbornness to seek new realities and our cowardly nature to accept everything bluntly.

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"Under morphine, Billy had a dream of giraffes in a garden. The giraffes were following gravel paths, were pausing to munch sugar pears from treetops. Billy was a giraffe, too," (Vonnegut 47).

Giraffes symbolize the distance between the head and the heart. Billy himself has lost his heart and disoriented in his own mind. They also hold the meaning of following your instincts when seen in dreams. This could reference to how he saw himself as a giraffe since he could see and understand the Tralfamadorians.

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"Billy was displayed there in the zoo in a simulated Earthling habitat" (Vonnegurt 53)

The zoo, although just a figment of Billy's imagination, symbolizes his feelings of entrapment in the war. He likens his mental state to a prison, being contracted to fight. The nation watches the soldiers like him go off to battle just as one might watch animals at a zoo.

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" Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millipedes with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other,' says Billy Pilgrim."
Analysis: They symbolize not only Billy’s “escape place” to his problems, but their belief about life and death also represent how people can be indifferent and careless about what happens in life and how they don’t do anything in order to avoid bad things to happen.

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"Billy was told to hang the tag around his neck along with his American dogtags, which he did. The tag was like a salt cracker perforated down its middle so that a strong man could snap it in two with his bare hand" (Vonnegut 92)

The Dogtags serve as ways to remember people by breaking them when they've died and being compared to a simple salt cracker which can snap easily, the dogtags symbolize the fragility of life

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Manya, Caitlin, Emilie, and Faith - The Coat

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Manya, Caitlin, Emilie, and Faith - The Coat

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"The coat that BiIly Pilgrim got had been crumpled and frozen in such a way, and was so small, that is appeared to be not a coat but a sort of large black, three-cornered hat" (Vonnegut 103).

The coat was a symbol for the dark, rough, and cruel war. Wars show no mercy while fighting or any source of light.

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"Billy was told to hang the tag around his neck along with his American dogtags, which he die" (Vonnegurt 44)

The dogtags dehumanize the soldiers, being a symbol for how war strips one of their empathy and replaces it with apathy.

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Krishal, Josh, Nickole - Billy's Mom - 2

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Krishal, Josh, Nickole - Billy's Mom - 2

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" She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all" (102). The symbol of Billy's Mom represents the challenges Billy faces as a result of the war. Billy's Mom is an excellent person, who works hard, but Billy has faced so much struggle that he has no will to live and his Mom's appearance near him brings that side out of him.

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"...his new overcoat was thawed out and limp now. It was much too small for Billy. It had a fur collar and a lining of crimson silk, and had apparently been made for an impresario about as big as an organ-grinder's monkey. It was full of bullet holes" (Vonnegut 114)

The coat was a dark reminder of the harsh and cruel reality of war. The coat belonged to someone who was too small to fight back and their gruesome demise was written all over the coat. In war, there is no such thing as mercy or forgiveness.

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Giraffe: "Under morphine, Billy had a dream of giraffes in a garden. The giraffes were following gravel paths, were pausing to munch sugar pears from treetops. Billy was a giraffe, too. He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest. " (Vonnegut 47)

Analysis: His dream reinforces the themes of alienation and apathy. Like Billy, giraffes are gentle and "outcasts" in the animal world. There is evidence in this morphine paradise that Billy needs to be accepted, because giraffes have been accepted and illustrate all of his compassion characteristics.

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"And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millipedes-- 'with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other..." (Vonnegut 87)
The millipedes symbolize  humans life span and how we go from young to old.

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Krishal, Joshua, Nickole - Deep End of a Swimming Pool - 1

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Krishal, Joshua, Nickole - Deep End of a Swimming Pool - 1

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" They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father had thrown him into the deep end of the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool when he was a little boy" (100). I think that the deep end of the swimming pool symbolizes that children shouldn't be in that part of the pool similar to how people have to go through the outcomes of war. Billy faces these struggles on a daily basis. and seems as if he was just thrown into a pool without knowing how to swim/

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"They said their flying-saucer crews had identified no fewer than seven sexes on Earth, each essential to reproduction." (Vonnegut114)
The symbolism of sexes reveals the level of unknowingness that humans possess. The Tralfamadorians explain the complexness of sex in the invisible dimension which is so obscure for Billy to understand. This represents how diverse nature is and the levels that we do not understand. Our knowledge is so limited to the mysteries of the universe in so many different ways.

"They had only one actual book in English, which would be placed in a Tralfamadorian museum." (Vonnegut 87)
Billy read Valley of the Dolls which was the only English book to understand thee Tralfamadorians. The symbol of books highlights the differences of one culture between another and how difficult it is for humans to relate to one another without a sense of familiarity. Books are the common ground to link one's culture to another, in this case a species.

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"His father had taken out his pocket watch. The watch had a radium dial" (Vonnegut 90)
"There were starving Russians with faces like radium dials" (Vonnegut 91)

A radium dial watch contains the radioactive element of radium which eventually harm and kill the person exposed to it long enough. The idea of a radium dial watch symbolizes the eventuality of death when time is up including his father, him, and the starving Russians

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"Billy had a dream of giraffes in a garden. The giraffes were following gravel paths, were pausing to munch sugar pears from treetops. Billy was a giraffe, too. He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest. The giraffes accepted Billy as one of their own, as a harmless creature as preposterously specialized as themselves" (Vonnegut 47)

The giraffes represent everything Billy wants in his fellow comrades. He wants brotherhood and people who both accept and care for him--instead he is pushed around and unable to connect with them. He wants to be accepted just as "the giraffes accepted Billy as one of their own". There is an emphasis on "harmless creatures" to reveal how Billy blames the violence of war for making the soldiers apathetic, unlike the giraffes.

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"Billy was told to hang the tag around his neck along with his American dogtags, which he die. The tag was like a salt cracker, perforated down its middle so that a strong man could snap it in two with his bare hands. In case Billy died, which he didn't, half of the tag would mark his body and half would mark his grave" (Vonnegut 116)

The dogtag exhibits the idea of soldiers being property. Once they die, the soldiers are simply tagged and forgotten about, receiving no further honor or recognition after their death at battle.

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"He was twelve years old, quaking as he stood with his mother and father on Bright Angel Point, at the rim of Grand Canyon... Billy hated the canyon. He was sure that he was going to fall in" (Vonnegut 42)

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"The Englishman touched him exploratorily here and there, filled with pity. 'My Godwhat have they done to you, lad? This isn't a man. It's a broken kite.' 

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Kyle + Ryann - 7 Blowouts on the way to the Grand Canyon

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Kyle + Ryann - 7 Blowouts on the way to the Grand Canyon

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"They had come to this famous place by automobile. They had seven blowouts on the way" (Vonnegut 89)

The grand canyon is a symbol of death as it is quite literally at the end of the road they drove on. On the way there, the 7 blowouts are an allusion to the 7 stages of man as written by William Shakespeare and how everyone goes through the 7 stages until they eventually reach the end

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"The guard knew English, and he hauled the Americans out of ranks, knocked him down."

"Why me?"

"Vy you, vy anyone" (Vonnegut 91)

The repetition of saying "why not" or "vy anyone" exemplifies the atrocity of life. When the tralfamadorians say it, they try tp educate Billy. In this instance, the guard says it to justify his cruelty. This antithesis reminds the audience that humans are evil and don't understand things past their immediate perspective.

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"He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth.  it snapped in juicy protest." (99)
This quote can symbolize a sense of internal/personal conflict, as the pear represents something so simple that causes Billy to struggle. Personification characteristics are given to the pair, in revolt, fighting for life with no hope, where Billy in his dread can be living in a similar mindset.

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"They see them as great millipedes  - "With babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other,'" (Page 87)

Millipedes compare with the lives of a human, and the legs of one shows events that occur during a lifetime. The comparison reveals that the Tralfamadorians see each and every event that a human goes through, almost as if time exists everywhere, and they can see everything at the same time.

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Jonathan, Daniel, Terry, Jacob- Giraffes 

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Jonathan, Daniel, Terry, Jacob- Giraffes 

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"The giraffes accepted Billy as one of their own. as a harmless creature as preposterously specialized as themselves,'' (Vonnegut 99). In Slaughterhouse Five, Billy has a dream about giraffes and he is eating with them in a group, the giraffes accept him as one of their own. I think this symbolizes Billy and his character, also his wants. He says that he fits in with them, maybe this is something Billy has always wanted, to fit in. It also symbolizes his physical characteristics, for example he is tall, skinny, and awkward. Like a giraffe.

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Jacob Portal, Terry Choi, Daniel Aguilar, Jonathan Casillas

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Jacob Portal, Terry Choi, Daniel Aguilar, Jonathan Casillas

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"He was twelve years old, quaking as he stood with his mother and father on Bright Angel Point, at the rim of Grand Canyon... Billy hated the canyon. He was sure that he was going to fall in" (Vonnegut 42).
This is a symbol of how Billy has a fear of death and the idea of dying is a scary dark thought to him. When he looks down the Grand Canyon, he realizes how if he fell he wouldn't have the ability to save himself and he would be helpless falling hundreds of feet.

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" The door was flung open from inside. Light leaped out through the door, escaped from prison at 186,000 miles per second. Out marched fifty middle-aged Englishmen. They were singing "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here' from the Pirates of Penzance'" (Vonnegut 44)

The allusion to the play, Pirates of Penzance, simultaneously works as a symbol aligned with the play's theme: duty or obligation. The play is also known as "The Slave of Duty". War is something Billy is called for, he sees it as his civic duty to fight for his nation, just like the Pirates of Penzance preaches.

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"He was twelve years old, quaking as he stood with his mother and father on Bright Angel Point, at the rim of Grand Canyon... Billy hated the canyon. He was sure that he was going to fall in" (Vonnegut 42)
The grand Canyon represents Billy's fear of death. By staring down the Canyon, where he could easily fall to his death, he is faced with the reality for the first time that if he were to fall, he has no power to save himself. This display of helplessness foreshadows the war to come.

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Manya, Caitlin, Emilie, Faith- Valencia 

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Manya, Caitlin, Emilie, Faith- Valencia 

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"Billy didn't want to marry ugly Valencia. She was one of the symptoms of his disease. He knew he was going crazy when he heard himself proposing marriage to her, when he begged her to take the diamond ring and be his companion for life" (Vonnegut 107).
Valencia is a symbol of his PTSD because Billy had no choice into going in the war. He was thrown into there and the more he saw in the war, the more he mentally was traumatized. He can't control his sense of time when coming back and just accepts where his memory is taking. Billy's relationship with Valencia is similar because as mentioned he does not want to marry her but later just did it impulsively. He felt as though he lost control of his words and had no choice but to marry her. The more his relationship with Valencia grew, the more his symptoms grew.

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Stars: "Billy couldn't read Tralfamadorian, of course, but he could at least see how the books were laid out-in brief clumps of symbols separated by stars. Billy commented that the clumps might be telegrams." (Vonnegut 88).

Analysis: It is noticeable that tiny parts of Slaughterhouse-Five are divided by small rows of three stars. They're not only there for decoration; Billy Pilgrim learns that all the Tralfamadorian books are structured in this way. The Tralfamadorians tell Billy that the stars have their own short messages to produce a unified, spectacular scenery.

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"Billy was displayed there in the zoo in a simulated Earthling habitat" (Vonnegut 112)
The zoo is the symbol of a prison, where he gets to be free, but learns that he does not really get freedom

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1. "Poo-tee-weet"
" The windows of the ward were open. Birds were twittering outside. 'Poo-tee-weet?' one asked him. The sun was high. There were twenty-nine other patients assigned to the ward, but they were all outdoors now, enjoying the day" (Vonnegut 108).
Analysis: This quote symbolizes how people don’t have anything intelligent to say about war and have no words to describe the horror they saw when Dresden was bombed.

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Faith, Manya, Caitlin, Emilie - Telegrams

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Faith, Manya, Caitlin, Emilie - Telegrams

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" 'There are no telegrams on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of-symbols is a brief, urgent message describing a situation, a scene, We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after the other There isn't any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time." (Vonnegut 88)

The idea of the telegrams symbolize the structure the this book. The Tralfamadorian concept of seeing all moments in a book is expressed in this book because Billy travels to all times in random order, as if he was experiencing them all at once. This book has no clear beginning, plot, or end, which is the same as a Tralfamadorian novel

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"The Englishman touched him exploratorily here and there, filled with pity. 'My Godwhat have they done to you, lad? This isn't a man. It's a broken kite.'," (Vonnegut 46.)

The symbolism of a kite usually represents innocence and freedom since young children feel as thought they could fly. When the Englishmen refers to him as a broken kite this represents that his freedom was robbed and his innocence had far been trampled. He was now just a hollow shell of the man he once was before the war.

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"They were known everywhere to be the most self-pitying, least fraternal, and dirtiest of all prisoners of war." (Vonnegut 131)
"He had already seen a lot of their marriage, thanks to time travel, knew that it was going to be at least bearable all way." (Vonnegut 120)
"When beautiful people were past, Valencia questioned her funny looking husband about war." (Vonnegut 120)

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Kyle + Ryann - Humans as great millipedes 

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Kyle + Ryann - Humans as great millipedes 

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"And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes 'with baby legs at one end and old people's legs at the other,'" (Vonnegut 87)

The symbol of humans as a symbolism with legs of different age are a metaphor for the lifespan of a human and how the Tralfamadorians perceive time. The Tralfamadorians see all of time as moments so humans are  a long line of moments from a baby to an elderly person