Revenge is the sweetest thing in life for Lazzaro, and he is always looking for an excuse to get some. The narrator compares Lazzaro to a rabid dog 6. Lazzaro's threats seem to work, because Billy really does believe that he is going to succeed in shooting him out of the blue. That is how Billy sees himself dying, and he has even seen the date: February 13, We cannot help but notice that February 13, the date of Billy's projected death, is the same day as the Dresden firebombing.
We're just sayin'. Anyway, there is no way to prevent or change this future assassination. Remember, according to the Tralfamadorians, we have no free will. Billy Pilgrim The central character of Slaughterhouse-Five. A pacifist, a soldier, a prisoner of war, and an optometrist someone who prescribes corrective lenses for people who have visual defects , Billy is the epitome of a mild-mannered Everyman who adapts to life's situations rather than challenge them.
He feels it is better to turn the other cheek than to suffer the guilt of being offensive — the only "aggressive" action Billy takes during the novel is his committing himself into a mental ward.
He becomes "unstuck in time" and travels to other times and places. Bernard V. Some 20 years after the war has ended, O'Hare accompanies the narrator on a visit back to Dresden. O'Hare when they return to that city in O'Hare, she rebukes the narrator concerning the novel he intends to write, contending that he will make war attractive by imposing heroic, adult maturity on the immature boy-soldier participants. Roland Weary A bully and a braggart, he is a foil to Billy Pilgrim, illustrating the contrast between his aggressive degeneracy and Billy's pacifism.
The Scouts Two unnamed American soldiers, their job is to slip behind enemy lines and gather essential information about the enemy. Elected leader by the other American prisoners, he is executed one month after the Dresden bombing for stealing a teapot. Lazzaro's promise is carried out in Pilgrim Billy's smug, self-righteous, and patriarchal father; when Billy is a child, his father throws him into the deep end of a pool to teach him how to swim and to shock him into assertive behavior.
Pilgrim is accidentally shot and killed in a hunting accident while Billy is on military maneuvers in South Carolina. The English officers are building themselves a new latrine, having abandoned the old one to the sick Americans. The Englishman who beat up Lazzaro stops by, and Lazzaro tells him that he is going to have the officer killed after the war. The sweetest thing in life, he claims, is revenge. He says that one time he fed a dog that had bitten him a steak filled with sharp pieces of metal and watched it die in torment.
Billy says he already knows that he will die because an old, crazed Lazzaro will keep his promise. He has time-traveled to this moment many times, and he knows that he will be a messianic figure by that time, delivering a speech about the nature of time to a stadium crowd of admirers and granting them solace by sharing the understanding that moments last forever and that death is a negligible reality.
He speaks at a baseball park covered by a geodesic dome. It is , and China has dropped a hydrogen bomb on Chicago. The United States has been divided into twenty nations to prevent it from threatening the world.
He experiences the violet nothingness of death, and then he swings back into life and to early The record of these events, Billy says, he has recorded on a cassette that he has left in a safe-deposit box in a bank.
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