Thus Far in Slaughterhouse Five, the readers were bombarded with many different pieces of new information. Billy Pilgrim was aboard with the creatures of Tralfamadore heading to their home. On the way, Billy asked to read a book to kill the time. Although they had many books on microfilm, they could not project them so he was stuck with one option, and the book was called Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann. They did not only have books in english, but they had books written in their form of writing. On page 88 it says, ““Only Tralfamadorian novels, which I’m afraid you couldn’t begin to understand,” said the speaker on the wall.” Even though Billy obviously couldn’t read Tralfamadorian, he tried to and he discovered that they are laid out so there were clumps of symbols separated by stars which were bits of messages so if you read them all, they would have …show more content…
Why are there short pieces of ‘scenes’ or urgent messages? Were they a part of the story, or were they bits of secrets? The Englishmen were completely adored by the Germans since their arrival. On page 94 it says, “They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun. So the Germans let them have four sheds, though one shed would have held them all.” My question is, why do they look up to the Englishmen so much? Is it because they trade things with them? For example, the Englishmen traded coffee, chocolate or tobacco for paint, lumber, nails, and cloth. One night, they had an evening of entertainment, the musical called Cinderella. On page 98 it says, “Billy found the couplet so comical that he not only laughed-he shrieked. He went on shrieking until he was carried out of the shed and into another, where the hospital was.” Why was Billy set in the hospital if he wasn’t sick, but just laughing at the entertainment? It also says that he was tied down, and given a shot of morphine. This seems a little