Analysis Of Billy Pilgrim's Slaughterhouse-Five

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New Chapter: Slaughterhouse Five Billy Pilgrim awoke to chaos as the room he was sleeping in with fellow soldiers began to close on him as he heard a rumbling coming from above.
As the rumbling began to get louder Billy heard “Time to go scouts were getting bombed” said by the leader of the group, officer Ronald Weary. Billy and Weary did not get along due to the simple fact that Billy did not listen, a prime example being the ditch incident. During Billy’s time in the war he witnessed bombings, executions and the largest massacre in European history in Dresden, so it goes. The scouts scurried outside of where they were staying at, which was an old worn down hotel they found that seemed to be evacuated a long time before the war began.
“Welcome to Dresden” Billy heard a fellow scout say once they saw
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“You do not understand we are all gonna die if…” just as billy said that he felt a large explosion as he blacked out.
Billy awoke in the dome, he blacked out in.
“Why could I not help them, why do they not listen?” Cried Billy.
“See human, it is impossible to change past events you have already been apart of, all of the events you relive will have the same exact outcome which has already happened in your life” explained the tralfamadorian.
“Why would I want to relive the same tragic events over and over and not be able to do anything about it? Take me to the other person you have taken now, I need to go home!” Cried Billy as he began to get angry at the tralfamadorians.
“Take him to her” said a tralfamadorian signaling to another tralfamadorian as Billy began to follow it.
As Billy walked out of the dome he entered the same area he awoke in. The tralfamadorian guided Billy to a certain room. The creature slowly opened the door as he saw a blonde girl lying down. It was Valencia, Billy’s wife.
“Valencia, Valencia, Valencia wake up” Billy said as he was shaking her until she awoke and hugged