Billy sat awaiting his death, a place and time he'd been before. What if life and time weren't linear? What if your life was just a combination of different events which you could travel back and forth through, always in a different order, but always the same; would you ever really die? In the novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, the author opposes war by mixing his own facts with fiction in a psychological journey which will warp your mind and leave you asking "what just happened?"Vonnegut's fictitious protagonist named Billy Pilgrim is a mundane character who lives through World War II and the bombing of Dresden. Vonnegut hides himself within Billy so he may tell his own story in a less invasive way. He creates a strange life for Billy in which he is abducted by aliens to discover what humans don't understand of life. This novel will teach you of life and of death, and make you grateful for the life you have. If you enjoy reading between the lines and reading to your subconscious, then this novel is definitely for you. Don't let the title scare you off, I guarantee it's not what you think.
Reviewed by BHS student R. Wehrly
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