Tralfamadorians
Billy Pilgrim at War
Billy Pilgrim's life
Billy Pilgrim's Life
Supporting Characters
100
The Tralfamadorians are shaped like this common household item.
What is a plunger?
100
Billy is taken prisoner by soldiers from this country.
What is Germany?
100

What is the prayer on Billy's wall?

What is God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference? or what is the serenity prayer?

100
She is Billy's daughter, who takes care of him but treats him like a crazy old man.
Who is Barbara?
100
She is Billy's wife, the overweight and bespectacled daughter of a wealthy Ilium optometrist.
Who is Valencia Merble?
200
Tralfamadorians do not believe in this and claim that Earth is the only planet where this concept exists.
What is free will?
200
He dies on the train on the way to the POW camp.
Who is Roland Weary?
200
Vonnegut really experienced this tragic World War II event that is the climax of this book.
What is the bombing of Dresden?
200

Billy does this secretly, alone, and for no apparent reason.

What is weeping?

200
She becomes angry with Vonnegut for writing a book about war because she is worried he will glamorize it and deny the fact that they were just babies in the war.
Who is Mary O'Hare?
300
The Tralfamadorians think that this is simply a bad moment in someone's life.
What is death?
300
This happens to Billy for the first time when he is wandering through the forest after a battle and leans against a tree, hoping to die.
What is coming unstuck in time?
300

The book title Vonnegut promise Mary O'hare to name his novel 

What is The Children's Crusade?

300
Billy Pilgrim gets abducted by the Tralfamadorians immediately after this event.
What is his daughter's wedding?
300
He saves Billy's life during the war, but he also abuses and bullies him and tells everyone that Billy is to blame for his death.
Who is Roland Weary?
400
The Tralfamadorians keep Billy here when they abduct him.
What is a zoo?
400
This is how Billy feels when he is marching with the other prisoners of war, bobbing up and down, up and down.
What is stingingly excited?
400

The saying the Tralfamadorians have that Billy Pilgrim states after someone dies.

So it goes.

400

Billy Pilgrim's job.

What is an optometrist?

400
He has the best body of the American prisoners of war, and he dies after the bombing of Dresden for stealing a teapot.
Who is Edgar Derby?
500
This is the metaphor the Tralfamadorians use to explain to Billy that "there is no why," that every moment "simply is."
What is bugs trapped in amber?
500
Where Billy is when he and his comrades have to take turns sleeping on the floor and pass their waste out in a bucket.
What are the trains used to transport the prisoners of war?
500

Vonnegut says this book was written by this because looking back on his experience in Dresden made him useless. (Hint: biblical allusion here)

What is a pillar of salt?

500
Billy Pilgrim reveals that he was abducted by aliens after these two events.
What is the plane crash and the death of his wife?
500
He has the worst body of the American prisoners and promised Roland Weary he would make Billy Pilgrim pay for his death.
Who is Paul Lazzaro?
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