Setting
Characterization
Conflicts
Quotes
Symbolism
100
It started at Billy's daughters wedding.
where did Chapter 4 start?
100
He had died on the ninth day of the boxcar journey.
What happened to Ronald Weary?
100
Not being able to sleep because he had just time traveled so he can no longer sleep.
What is the conflict that Billy is having when he wakes up.
100
They state that war cannot be prevented on Tralfamadore any more than it can on Earth
What do the aliens say about war?
100
Billy’s bare feet are described as being blue and ivory, as when Billy writes a letter in his basement in the cold and when he waits for the flying saucer to kidnap him. These cold, corpselike hues suggest the fragility of the thin membrane between life and death, between worldly and otherworldly experience.
What does the colors blue and ivory represent?
200
He goes to a boxcar traveling across Germany.
Where does billy go next after he time travels for the second time?
200
He is the man that swears that Billy will pay for killing Ronald weary.
Who is Paul Lazzaro.
200
"They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber."
Why did the aliens choose Billy?
200
Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.
what did the narrator say about Billy
200
The jabbering bird symbolizes the lack of anything intelligent to say about war. Birdsong rings out alone in the silence after a massacre
What does the The Bird Who Says “Poo-tee-weet represent?
300
They arrive in a prison camp in Germany.
Where does the train arrive on the tenth day of the journey.
300
He is a forty-four-year-old teacher from Indianapolis, who was forced to go to war and became a POW
Who is Edgar Derby?
300
He has to stay watch and he has to sleep standing up because he yells and kicks in his sleep.
What does Billy have to do when in Germany?
300
There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages. . . . There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral. . .
What do the aliens say to Billy?
300
Derby's death reminds billy of a firing squad.
What does Derby's death remind Billy of?
400
He is then a middle-aged optometrist playing golf with three other optometrists. And he sinks a putt and gets the ball and right when he gets it the flying saucer comes back to get Billy.
Where does billy time travel the third time?
400
A war veteran who occupies the bed near Billy in the mental ward of a veterans’ hospital.
Who is Elliot Rosewater?
400
People are dying and also a man named Ronald Weary.
What is happening on the ninth day on the boxcar journey?
400
"Hitler becomes a baby and all of humanity works toward creating two perfect people named Adam and Eve."
What did Billy see Hitler as?
400
They say that he is trapped in a blob of amber. He is where he is because the moment is structured that way, because time in general is structured that way—because it could not be otherwise.
What does the aliens say the flying saucer represents?
500
Billy has committed himself to the mental ward in his last year of optometry school.
Where is Billy in the aftermath of the war?
500
Aliens shaped like toilet plungers, each with one hand containing an eye in its palm.
What are Tralfamadorians
500
Billy is responsible for his death and a car thief from Cicero, Illinois, named Paul Lazzaro swears he will make Billy pay for causing Weary’s death.
who is responsible for Ronald's death?
500
They tell him that "there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber."
What Did the aliens say to Billy when he asked why they choose him?
500
He symbolizes a "Hitler becomes a baby and all of humanity works toward creating two perfect people named Adam and Eve."
In Billy's mind what does Hitler symbolize?
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