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Hello readers,
For this blogging assignment, I will be doing Slaughter House Five. Slaughter House five is a book about Billy Pilgrim and how he goes through life before, after, and during World War Two. Billy was an American solider, not a very good one but a soldier none the less.
This book is anti-war story. It most definitely discouraged me from going into war. I never really thought about how if I go to war I'll most likely go crazy like Billy. And Billy is most definitely crazy, he thinks he jumps through time. Billy sees all these terrible things that he no longer wants to deal with, so he travels through time to escape the bad things happening around him. To make him feel better, I think he creates the Tramlfadores. They tell him that only focusing on the good in life is the right thing to do.

"Later on in life, the Tramlfamadorians would advise Billy to concentrate on the happy moments in his life, and to ignore the unhappy ones -to stare only at pretty things as eternity failed to go by." (pg. 195)

They tell him that escaping something you don't like is completly normal. You shouldn't have to go through something that you don't like. The Tralfmadorians convinced Billy that not seeing the bad things in life is the way you are supposed to live.

Billy doesn't see how crazy he is with the Tralfmadorians reassuring him that he is perfectly sane. He sees aliens that look like toliet pluggers and yet thinks nothing of it. Why do you think the Tralfmadores were added?