Slaughterhouse five

  • Billy's birth date

    Billy's birth date
    Billy was born in Ilium, New York, the only child of a barber there. He was a funny-looking child who became a funny-looking youth-tall and weak, and shaped like a
    bottle of Coca-Cola.
  • Travel for the firts time.

    Travel for the firts time.
    he was an optometry school student in upstate New York
  • Send to Luxembourg to fight the Germans

    Send to Luxembourg to fight the Germans
    When Billy joined the regiment, it was in the process of being destroyed by the Germans in the famous Battle of the Bulge. Billy never even got to meet the chaplain he was supposed to assist, was never even issued a steel helmet and combat boots.
  • Discharged from the army

    Discharged from the army
    Billy saw service with the infantry in Europe, and was taken prisoner by the Germans. After his honorable discharge from the Army in 1945, Billy again enrolled in the Ilium School of Optometry.
  • Billy committed himself

    Billy committed himself
    billy committed himself in a non violent mental patients veterans hospital
  • Wedding day

    Wedding day
    Billy has gone to sleep a senile widower and awakened on his wedding day
  • He was elected president.

    He was elected president.
    Billy stopped skating, found himself at a lectern in a Chinese restaurant in Ilium, New York, on an early afternoon in the autumn He was receiving a standing ovation from the Lions Club. He had just been elected President, and it was necessary that he speak.
  • Little League team

    Little League team
    He was at a banquet in honour of a Little League team of which his son Robert was a member.
  • He was kidnapped by a saucer

    He was kidnapped by a saucer
    The saucer was from the planet Tralfamadore. He was taken to Tralfamadore, where he was displayed naked in a
    zoo. He was mated there with a former Earthling movie star named Montana Wildhack.
  • Radio Program

    Billy went to New York City, and got on an all-night
    radio program devoted to talk. He told about having come unstuck in time.
  • Plane crash

    Plane crash
    A group of optometrists, with Billy among them, chartered an airplane to fly them from Ilium to an international convention of optometrists in Montreal. The plane crashed on top of Sugarbush Mountain, in Vermont. Everybody was killed but Billy. So it goes.
  • Death of billy

    Death of billy
    Will die, have died and always will die.