Paul Lazzaro comes off as pretty unhinged, being the poster child for Disproportionate Retribution.Because of the intense personal nature of the story - Vonnegut himself actually witnessed or took part in many of the book's events - the author himself is present as a character as well as first-person narrator.Kilgore Trout is a recurring author avatar (although he also has elements of fellow sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon, Vonnegut's friend/mentor) in many of Vonnegut's novels.Billy Pilgrim is a stand-in for Vonnegut's experiences as a POW during World War II and as a witness to the bombing of Dresden.Arc Words: "So it goes." It appears no less than 106 times in the novel (and it's a quite short novel as well). ![]() Apocalypse How: In the distant future, an accident during a test of a new Tralfamdorian rocket will start a chain reaction that will utterly annihilate the universe.Some characters' deaths (i.e., Billy, Derby) are explicitly mentioned by the narrator long before they ever occur, some are a little more unexpected (i.e., Roland Weary). ![]() During the novel, we're reminded several times that this will happen however, when it finally does, it's described in three sentences.
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