Summary Of Slaughterhouse-five
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Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, the main character, in chronological order, starting with Billy's capture and imprisonment by Germany during World War II. This story is interspersed with incidents of Billy's life on earth before and after the war, and from his fantasy voyage ....
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.... to Billy Pilgrim, who was born in Illium, New
York, in 1922. He is tall and weak, and not ambitious. He became rich partly by his good fortune an partly because he marries a rich woman. Billy was in the infantry in Europe in World War II as a chaplain's assistant. He was taken
prisoner by the Germans, and kept in the slaughterhouse along with Vonnegut in
Dresden. He survived the Allied bombing along with Vonnegut only because the
meat locker where he was kept was underground.
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