Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote Slaughter House Five, in revolt against all wars. The novel can be divided into several distinct stories all combined to convey one theme. The major theme focuses around the central character of Billy Pilgrim before, during, and after the war. Vonnegut himself plays a major role in the novel as narrator and witness of World War II. The difficulties Vonnegut had in the writing of the actual novel are also examined …showed first 75 words of 1868 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1868 total…Tralfamadore where he learns all new concepts of time. Kurt Vonnegut uses these concepts of time in his novel as an ironic jump from the past, to the present, and to the dream world. By using this method he avoids glorifying war, and he manages to allow Billy to miss out on every bad situation by following the Tralfamadorians concepts of time and skipping from one fragment of time to the next, and so on.