Slaughter House Five: Time Travel

Part I of Essay
Is time travel a mere illusion or can it really exist? In the novel Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut the existence of time travel is portrayed. Vonnegut does not use time travel to change the future or the past, just to visit it. He uses Billy Pilgrim to express hi ....

Part II of Essay
.... in another world without actually being there. This is the best and easiest way to get away from in all. Billy's seems to have many unpleasant memories and each time one surfaces he goes back or forward in time. If someone died, or something didn't go the way it should have, he leaped. When the reader finally begins to understand what's going on and where he is at a particular time, Vonnegut changes the time period. . Why does Billy's time travel? He says it's because of the Tralfamadorians. They did this to him so that he would never ....