Essay Sample on a Parody on Slaughter House

Introduction

Slaughterhouse-five is a sequential narration of Billy's life story. Billy Pilgrim is faced a time of out of coherence while he is a participant of the Second World War. He has had an in transit throughout his life through the various journeys he is engaged in during the war. He has witnessed his birth and death alongside other things in most instances. He was born and raised in Ilium, New York, whereby after high school he attended the optometry school in Ilium but later drafted for the world war two before his graduation (Vees-Gulani 2003, pp. 176). He was transported to Europe although he was not given a gun or the appropriate attire such as boots when he found himself lost in the lines of the enemy alongside three other people. In the process, two of the people in his company are killed. Billy Pilgrim and Roland Weary are arrested by the Germans and end up being prisoners of war.

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The setting of the book slaughterhouse five in chapter seven present Billy Pilgrim who is on board in a plane in Ilium. additionally, there is the father-in-law, a barbershop quartet and other optometrists bound for a Montreal conference (Vonnegut 1969, pp. 196). Although the quartet keeps singing funny songs, Billy has a hint that the plane would crash soon. The barbershop quartet in the plane keeps singing the bawdy songs on request of the father-in-law to Billy (Vonnegut 1969, pp.197). He has a flashback in 1944 while he was in the company of Roland Weary in the Luxembourg forest. The plane crashes hitting a sugar bush mountain, where he is rescued by an Austrian Aki instructors group. Billy's Pilgrim's plane crash is an instance of the deep internalized message from Tralfamadore in his thoughts. The group who rescues him speaks to him in German, and he introduces himself with his war address "Schlachthof-funf." They take him down the mountain on the sled where he is admitted to a hospital. He is administered a three hours brain surgery. He is aware that he would soon be involved in a plane crash through the psychology flashbacks he experiences; he accepts the events that would unfold as he has no natural power to stop or prevent the crush. Otherwise, if he did not know the plane was to crush, he had accepted the events that they were as just as they were, similar to the Tralfamadorians acceptance on the pressing of the button that would destroy the universe.

In the state of unconsciousness, he has back traveled the first night he spent in the slaughterhouse. Both Billy and Derby are directed to dinner by a guard known as Werner Gluck, who is related to Billy, though he is not aware of it. Billy's time travel, while he is in the state of unconsciousness alongside the reality of the dreams relating to his past, leads to a reasonable conclusion of his experiences in his memories while he is in a coma. The severe head injury is an explanation illustration of his belief in the Tralfamadorians as well as the time travel, which is well explained by his daughter (Cacicedo 2005, pp.360).

The setting of the chapter is interesting as Billy who is the main character knows what it ought to happen in the immediate future, although he has no wish to disturb the present, or act in a suspicious manner that would make the rest of his crew aware that the plane was bound to crash before it does. He is a character who allows time and fate to manifest by itself.

Works Cited

Cacicedo, Alberto. "You must remember this": Trauma and Memory in Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 46.4 (2005): 357-368.

Vees-Gulani, S. Diagnosing Billy Pilgrim: A psychiatric approach to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 44(2), (2003). 175-184.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade, A Dirty Dance with Death. New York: Dell, 1969. 196-200