An Ambigious Mind

In the first chapter of Slaughter House-Five, we are introduced to a war vetern, Billy Pilgrim, from a disaster in Dresden. He begins telling us about his past, although we shortly find out afterwards that he has trouble remembering his memories from his experience. We then see that he had a rather unstable life after his return, we find this evident when he describes to us what he used to do after his wife was asleep. He shows us that he has a "disease" which involves the abuse of alcohol. Pilgrim's "odyssey" bases itself on a man's struggle and rememberance of time not so buoyant.

Kurt Vonnegut's entailing beginning to a novel is ambigious in the way that he leaves his readers in a state of;apprehension towards what might happen throughout his novel. Something I found fascinating about the book is that Vonnegut leaves little or no room for forseeing what might occur in his mind blogging adventure. I'm thrilled to see what occurs when an old war veteran and his freind (Bernard V. O'Hare) are set to relive all their horrific memories in what is Slaugther House-Five.