Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five By: Kurt Vonnegut Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. He came unstuck while he was in World War II and has been traveling throughout different moments of his life ever since. He has seen his birth, death, and everything in between several times. Slaughterhouse Five is the story of Billy’s life, but not in order, from birth to death, because that is not how he lived it. Billy was born and grew …

…thought he had gone crazy. Maybe he had. At the time of his death, Billy was in Chicago giving a seminar on flying saucers and the true nature of time. He knew he was about to die. He told the crowd he would be killed that night, he laughed about it. He knew Lazzaro was finally going to go through with his promise. And he did. Billy was shot in the head. So it goes.