Billy Pilgrim has a much different method retreating into the dark depths of his imagination, yet the basic reason remains the same -- escape from a disapproving world. For him, a survivor of one of the worst disasters in World War II, he comes home to the States to find a nation that is almost completely ignorant to the plight he was forced to face stuck in the meat lockers in Dresden. While he witnessed the fire bombings, which resulted in the death of thousands of German civilians, soldiers, and American prisoners of war, the rest of the nation never fully understood the happenings of that fateful event over seas. Rather, he came home to a nation which completely ignored that traumatic experience of his, and he was forced to use his own methods to deal with his trauma through the various facets of his imagination. America did not provide...
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