KURT VONNEGUT: THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES In 1968, the year Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was writing Slaughterhouse-Five, the war in Vietnam was at its height. Each evening it invaded millions of American living rooms on the television news, and what viewers saw of the conflict night after night made them worried and uneasy about what was taking place. Opinion polls showed that most Americans were then in favor of the war, but a wave of antiwar …showed first 75 words of 10904 total…

…showed last 75 words of 10904 total…being's place is not in a war. ^^^^^^^^^^SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE: CHAPTER 2 STRUCTURE: In this chapter you meet Billy Pilgrim and get a taste of his peculiar experience of time. Vonnegut summarizes Billy's life from his birth (1922) to the present (1968). Then he opens up two important plot lines. The first involves Billy's attempt to tell his story to the world in 1968. The second is the beginning of Billy's adventures in the war. Vonnegut begins with the premise t