Slaughterhouse

In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five ,Billy Pilgrim is a man who travels through time. He was a solider in WWII and flashes back between his days in the war, his days after the war and his time spent on Tralfamadore. Billy some how experienced trauma that causes him to believe the he is time traveling. Vonnegut allows for the explanation for Billy's unstable mental state to be one of three things. He suffered too much brain trauma in a plan crash after the war, he was traumatized during the war, or something else accrued before the war and the crash that caused his trauma. Throughout, the novel Billy switches between "worlds"(realities) which in themselves creates his own 3 dimensional reality. Through these flash backs Vonnegut displays the realities war holds, allowing him to share his own reality of what war is. Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five,constructs, not only the possibility of Billy's reality, but Vonnegut's reality too.