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"'I suppose they'll all want dignity,' I sad" (212). This last chapter is when the narrator puts himself back into the story. It seems as though he too was in the war. Also, he seems to know Billy pretty well too. I don't know why exactly he only shows up in this last chapter and the first. I don't think that he is Billy, however. However, based on what he said : "If you're ever in Wyoming, just ask for coyote bob" makes me think that they could very possibly be the same person. Or maybe he was just with Billy and knows this Bob person too. In any case, overall, a very good book.

Slaughterhouse

"He was a gun nut. He left me his guns. They rust" (210). The author's style is very blunt. Sentences are short and choppy. This illustrates how Billy thinks. He can't have fully coherent thoughts anymore since the plane crash. Also when he says "they rust" I think that it goes to show what war can do to a person. He wants nothing to do with the guns or violence anymore. So he no longer goes near them. He seems to also be the opposite of his father. However, both men seem to have their thoughts and opinions and stick to them.

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"He's not a human being anymore. Doctors are for human beings." (190). I think that Billy hasn't really been alive for a while now. He is characterized as being so imaginative, that he can be considered crazy. He no longer knows what is true and what is not. He's been this way since the war. It was only worse after the plane crash. But what really defines a human being? Is it one that is alive and understanding? Or through his craziness, can he really still be a human?

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"An hour later she was dead. So it goes." (183). He has just told the story of how his wife died. But he still is completely unemotional about it. The entire marriage was sort of fake to him. He proposed because he knew it was right. He didn't really love her. And now when she's dead he doesn't care either. The only person it seems he has ever cared for would be Montana. He actually loved her. But what happened to her isn't ever fully disclosed. He says she's still on the planet. But most people think she was killed.

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"Don't worry, it will never be bombed" (147). This is from a fake letter from Derby that he wrote in his head. I think that this is the writer's way of foreshadowing what will happen, but to the characters. The readers already know what will happen. But the characters who are going there are still clueless. In this letter, he is confident that this city will be kept safe. However, in just a few days he will be dead and the city will be gone.

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"Weary was filled with a tragic wrath" (50). Weary is the bad sort of crazy. Part of me seems to want to sympathize with him, however. I honestly begin to have a sort of pity for him because he's never had a real friend. But then, he doesn't have friends because he is so mean. He has all of the makings to be a serial killer-killing animals, studying torture methods, beating people, ect. He is so sad because he is always being left behind and forgotten. It's like the bully circle-people bully because they've been ullied and then those people go and hurt more people. Weary is just a bully towards all.

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"There was a lot that Billy said was gibberish to the Tralfamadorians, too" (114). The only thing that I have yet to understand is if he actually has gone crazy. Part of me really thinks that Billy has. However, it's not the PSTD sort of crazy, but the in a weird way cool crazy. The reasons that I think he's lost it are because he says he's died of being shot in the head by a laser gun, which is not invented even in our time yet. But I really don't think that he's going to harm himself or others due to his being crazy. He seems to just better understand what he can do to help humanity as a whole. These aliens have ideals that are so radical to even us, but Billy understands and accepts them