Well!! We know that the world ends because of an explosion for which the Tralfamadorians are responsible. When I was reading the novel, I felt as if many scenes could lead on to a climax. For this post, I wanted to list all these possible situations..
1. We all remember Billy being thrown into the swimming pool so that he learns how to either through swim or sink method. Well what if a transition occurs when he sinks down, light slowly diminishing, and he feels painless. Then there is a smooth transitions to when Billy is in the shower in one of the prison camps for he was lost in the moment.
2. We see Billy Pilgrim warming up under a blanket for the furnace has broken down, we see Billy complaining of his bossy daughter with her Edwardian piano like legs, he feels as if he was a zoo animal trapped and he could remove the blanket to see his son, Robert, staring hysterically into empty space in his bedroom....
3. Lake Placid Mental Institute, 1948, Billy is placed in morphine for people thought he went crazy during his final year at the Ilium School of Optometry!!!He is placed near Eliot Rosewater who fantasizes Kilgore Trout's creation. We are told of their wild adventures discussing the various science-fiction stories of Trout, a robot with bad breath, a tree which grows money and so on... We can then smoothly jump to 1948, three years after the war in the veterans' hospital, where he is pretends to be happy about seeing his future wife, Valencia.
Wee see a lot of transitions between postwar and prewar episodes which Vonnegut ties it in flawlessly into the narrative.
4. He is travelling on a train back in 1944 to attend his father's funeral in Ilium. The trains were slow, he was disgusted by the poor conditions..He got to sleep peacefully three hours from Ilium..This moment of silence and calm can be connected to another similar moment which occurs when he sleeps peacefully standing up along with the hobo for they were both not permitted to sit within the boxcar.
By:Parvathy
That is a great idea for the transition. But where are the other two?
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