Is Billy Pilgrim Insane

In the book Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut the main protagonist is a Scrawny boy from New york named Billy Pilgrim. Throughout his life billy has gone through some pretty serious event's. These event's have convinced him that everything we know about time is wrong. He also believes he was abducted by a race of aliens named the Tralfamadorians, but that's besides the point. Although he believes these things are real, is he insane? On the Fourth of July of 1922, In the city of Ilium, new york a boy named Billy Pilgrim was born. 21 years later the 6 foot 3” Optometry student was drafted into the army. While in Virginia, he served as a chaplain's assistant -Which is a sort of minister-. Later, he was put on the front-lines in Germany in 1944.

When the Armed forces firebomb the city Billy takes refuge in an abandoned meat locker. Amazingly, he survives and when he emerges he finds a field of destruction, just days later Russian forces capture the city and he is transported from Germany back to the U.S. Later After having a nervous breakdown, Billy dedicates himself to a veterans’ hospital. While staying in the mental ward, another patient introduces Billy to the science fiction novels of a writer named Kilgore Trout -which is important and I'll explain later-. Soon after he's released from the hospital he marries Valencia Merble -who's father just happened to own the Ilium School of Optometry in his home town-. In 1947, Billy and Valencia's first child Robert is born, and two years later they have a daughter Named Barbara. On her wedding night, Billy is captured by an alien space ship and taken to a planet called Tralfamadore. On that planet, Billy learns the views of the planet's inhabitants the Tralfamadorian's. He also meets -guess who?- a porn` star, who was also abducted, named Montana