Slaughter-house five Chapter 2

In this chapter Billy explains the way he was kidnapped by aliens and taken to another planet. He says he was displayed naked in a zoo and that he learned how to become unstuck in time. He goes back and forth in time between his present life as an optometrist and his past in World War II. This moments are very important for the book because its where he began having this breaks in time. "Billy Pilgrim had stopped in the forest. He was leaning against a tree with his eyes closed. His head was tilted back and his nostrils were flaring. He was like a poet in the

Parthenon. This was when Billy first came unstuck in time." (pg 43) This kind of relates to the way in which you remember important things you have lived and many times regret what you have done. In this chapter Billy is pushed around by others because he is very weak and in a sense has no feeling of time or presence because he is constantly changing of time period. Billy is very vulnerable because he is only half conscious of what is happening and even though he is in the middle of a war he has no weapons.

All the way throughout the novel Billy is jumping in time staying only for very short moments on each time frame. Billy can have a fragile state of mind for believing in some strange things, like Trafalmadorians, but more than this I think it is a symbolic thing that we will possibly discover throughout the rest of the novel.