Billy Pilgrim as a Christ Figure in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Slaughterhouse Five

Billy Pilgrim plays a Christian character at Slaughterhouse Five of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. After reading Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s novel "Slaughterhouse Five", I am leaving myself blank. I have to ask myself "Puty Wheat?" (Vonnegut, p. 215). However, according to Vonnegut, the answer to my question is "This is like this" (Vonnegut, p. 214). In fact, this is the root of my attempt to understand the character and life of Billy Pilgrim who I led this through the novel.

Both sides of Billy's pilgrims may be destroyed in the five battles of Kurt Vonegut slaughter. I can teach war. In Kurt Vonnegut's book Slaughterhouse Five, the central character Billy Pilgrim is the result of the test. In creating and developing Billy's pilgrims, Vonnegut's goal was to show the influence of contemporary war to the sensitive person who tried to play the game in the same way as social expectations. Along with family influences, it shaped Billy's behavior in his two different lives: life and military life.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five tells Billy Pilgrim, the story of a "timely" man. The two central events that Billy came back were his kidnapping by Alien on the planet of Tralmadre and his time as a prisoner of war during World War II when he saw the burning in Dresden, Germany did. Bomb alienation and loneliness can be defined as being unable to connect to other individuals or society as a whole. In this sense, Billy's pilgrims are deeply alienated individuals. His "timely" can not stop building the continuing experience of building relationships with others, so he can not communicate in literal words.

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Written by Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five is a novel about Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War. He insisted that he was "not in time." "(Slolohaus 5) 23. Billy Pilgrim seems to remember to travel to the outer planet; he talked about it on a radio program and wrote it in the newspaper.The tendency to travel passively, A delusion of post traumatic stress disorder, a condition caused by recent trauma, or reconstruction of a trauma in the child's hood.