The novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is an American classic that centers on the life of Billy Pilgrim. There are three key phases in Billy’s life that Vonnegut focuses on: before World War II, during World War II, and after World War II. The main reason for Vonnegut to write this novel is not to show how war is evil, but to show how war influences the lives of the soldiers who have engaged in battle. In this essay, it will show how Kurt Vonnegut uses the life of Billy to represent the horrific impact that the soldiers go through after the war. Billy Pilgrim was just a juvenile out of high school. He was an infantryman in World War II. The novel emphasizes two major events to ever happen, Billy that happened on two nights in February. He had been taken captive by the Nazi soldiers and had been held against his will under a slaughterhouse in Dresden. On February 13th and 14th of 1945, air forces bombed Dresden and slaughtered around 250,000 people. Dresden was not a fighting city. There was a small amount of manufacturing activity. It was a town of infirmaries and prisoner of war camps. Fortunately, Billy Pilgrim was not one of the countless people who died during the bombing. Billy is one of the few people to survive such spiteful and brutal attacks on Dresden made him to start having feelings of guilt. For several years he tried to figure out why he was one of the fortunate one’s chose to live. After the war, something bizarre happened to Billy. He was abducted by Traflamadorians, who were intellectually and sophisticated creatures. Billy would discuss philosophy and the idea of the 4th dimension with them. The meaning of the 4th dimension is that every point in one’s life is always happening, making the thought of fatality not so appalling, because even when one is dead at that specific time, one is still living in another time. Due to this philosophy of life is why Billy creates a world where life and death a