Billy Pilgrim's Slaughter House-Five

Slaughter house-five is a book about the life of a man named Billy Pilgrim. After his childhood, Billy goes to school to study to become an optometrist so that he could work for his fathers business. He ends up becoming drafted into the military and is sent to Germany. He returns and suffers 3 traumatic events. First of all he suffers from nervous collapse, then he gets into a plane crash and is the only one to survive, and finally while he is recovering from his crash his wife passes away. These traumatic events cause him to create false events that make him believe he is unstuck in time. He reaches out to both a newspaper and radio station to share his story of how he is abducted by aliens who teach him the ways of time. These aliens are …show more content…
I believe Billy makes this event and way of viewing time because of the traumatic event of loosing his wife. This allows Billy to not accept that he will never see her again and thinks that she is just at a bad moment in time. His daughter, Barbra, believes that Billy is insane. This is also why I believe his events are perceived and they aren't a reality. The author switches to his experience in the military, where he enters into a battle, completely unprepared for the weather. He eventually ends up with two scouts and an antitank gunner. The antitank gunner, Ronald Weary, becomes Billy's main helper during the war. He pushes Billy to keep going, although he is in terrible circumstances. This causes Ronald Weary to believe he is a hero and the leader of the group. He even makes up a war hero story about the three musketeers who saved Billy Pilgrim. While in the forest, Billy, who is extremely dehydrated, fatigued, and cold, perceives for the first time that he is unstuck in time. He travels first to his birth, then to a memory of his dad throwing him into a pool to teach him how to swim, then to his sons baseball banquet, and finally to a holiday party where he cheated on his …show more content…
He is transported back to the hospital. The movie arrival is also about perceived events in time travel based on traumatic events. The main character, Dr. Louise Banks, is a linguist. She is recruited by the army during a crisis, spaceships have been located at random parts of the world, to translate these alien's language. She is assisted by her future husband, Ian Donnelly. They meet the aliens and their language is patterns that Dr. Banks starts to translate. As she becomes more fluent in their language, she is able to travel to the future with her daughter, who dies of cancer, and her husband, who leaves her when he figures out their daughter has cancer. Louise asks what the aliens want and they respond "offer weapon". This causes countries to close their communications and take a more forceful approach. Dr. Banks stops this from happening by making a phone call to General Shang and knows what to say to stop him because she is transported to the future where she is having a book meeting. Her book is on the aliens language and General Shang tells her exactly what she said. In the end, Ian tells her he is in love with her and asks to have a