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

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

yoon changhee

(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

Muhammad Ahmed

"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>

Muhammad Ahmed

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

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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.

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

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(53-54)

Billy and Weary are captured by the Germans.

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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.

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

Chaemin Lee

"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.

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

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(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

2) Describes well Billy and Weary in war.

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

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(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)

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.

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

Chaemin Lee

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

(So yoosuk)

So it goes (p.6)

Hong-il Kim

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

Hong-il Kim

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

"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.

(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

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

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

Joshua Mariano

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.

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.

--> 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.

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

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

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.

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

Juha Hwang

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.

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?

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.

(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

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.

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.

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.

(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.

(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.

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

2) Shows Billy after bombing in Dresden.