You are Billy Pilgrim, and you are always the oddball. You are the only human on the planet called Tralfamadoria being watched by aliens. You are ridiculed because of your flamboyant fur coat as a prisoner of war. You are awkwardly alone in the world. You can time travel - to the future or to the past.
Is this a quasi-memoir? Is Kurt Vonnegut Billy Pilgrim? Kurt Vonnegut was a prisoner of war during World War II and witnessed the obliteration of Dresden. Billy Pilgrim was a prisoner of war during World War II and witnessed the obliteration of Dresden.
The chapters within this novel are separated into short portions. The phrase "so it goes" follows a scene when someone or something dies. The phrase "somewhere the big dog barked again" follows a scene when fear is described.
According to Vonnegut, death appears to end, but human existence is past, present, and future. It never ends.
Near the end of the book, there is a sketch of a female's chest with a large locket with the following engraving: "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."
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