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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse five is a very complex and twisted story about a World War Two veteran.
The story is set in three different time periods of his' life. His name is Billy Pilgrim
and he lives in Ilium New York. Billy graduated high school in the top third of his
class. He attended night school at the Ilium School of Optometry. Soon after he was
drafted and his father died while hunting. 
During war he was a chaplain's assistant. While serving he saw some action and was
captured by the Germans. He met a fat antitank gunner named Roland Weary. He wasn't very
popular or liked by people. They were taken to a prison with one hundred other American
POWs. 
They were shipped by train for a few days and were temporarily set up at a crossroad.
There the prisoners were given coats. Billy was given a civilan coat that was too small
and in that coat he found a diamond. 
There, the English prisoners took care of them and helped Billy from going insane. While
there they were given coats and Billy received a civilian coat with a large diamond in
it.. He also found a pair a silver paratrooper boots. He looked like a clown. While on
the way to that prison Weary died of a foot disease and asked people to avenge him. A
couple days later the Americans were sent to Dresden to work. On the way there Billy met
a car thief named Paul Lazzaro who was going to avenge Weary's death. The person Weary
said was responsible was Billy but Lazzaro had better things on his mind. After a few
days in Dresden the city was firebombed. The city was completely destroyed, and to Billy
it looked like the moon. 130,000 souls lost their lives that night and that was the end
of the war.