In your opinion, what triggers Billy's time-travel?
2007-07-27 16:33:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
do you think extremely emotional times trigger the "unstuck in time" stories
2007-07-27 17:05:46 · update #1
It's Billy's experiences in the Dresden firebombing and its aftermath which have unstuck him in time; an experience so shattering that it fragments the rest of his life and all the memories before, as it did for Kurt Vonnegut, the book's author.
Everything becomes meaningful, interconnected, interwoven and echoes backwards and forwards from that time, and reduces all experience to the simplicity of a bird's song in the ruins, to a shrug and "So it goes", to the Tralfamadorian greeting, "Hello...goodbye...goodbye...hello..."
2007-07-27 16:56:11 · answer #1 · answered by Palmerpath 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Billy is "unstuck in time" for unexplained reasons, but the book hints at him having survived a plane crash and has mild brain damage or possibly petit mal seizures.
Personally I like to think Billy became unstuck just so he could go to Tralfamadore and meet up with that hottie Montana Wildhack - probably my favorite character in all of literature. Pax - C
2007-07-27 16:40:00 · answer #2 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Billy has become "unstuck in time" for unexplained reasons (though it's hinted towards the end that his surviving a plane crash left him with mild brain damage) so he randomly and repeatedly visits different parts of his life, including his death."
Other suggestions: childhood traumas, dreams, his shattering war experiences, ot just plain old fantasy.
2007-07-27 16:41:19 · answer #3 · answered by HoneyBunny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋