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Billy Pilgrim (protagonist)
Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist, is born in Ilium, New York. He graduated high school in the upper third of his class. He attended one semester of optometry college before being drafted for WWII. 23 years after in 1945, Billy is honorably discharged from the military Then returns to Ilium, and marries the daughter of the founder of the Ilium School of Optometry. -
Assistant
Billy is a chaplain's assistant for an Army regiment in Germany. His entire unit had been bombed, leaving only him alive. He joined three other soldiers and decides to stick with them. During his party's march back to the Allied front, he "becomes unstuck in time" for the first time. He travels back to sometime in his childhood. -
Roland Weary
HE starts beating Billy, and is just about to break his spine, when they get discovered by Germans who are in the process of "mopping up." The Germans take them as POW's. Billy falls asleep after being in a non-moving train car for two days and wakes up on the night of his abduction. -
KV (narrator) and Billy Pilgrim
The "climax" of the story is the very last few weeks of the war. Billy, the narrator, and the other POWs are rounded up by Germans again and marched back into Dresden with pickaxes and shovels to extract the bodies. The holes that they had made in the rubble were called "corpse mines." -
Drafted
Drafted into the war. -
Billy's Dad
The day Billy's dad died. -
Montana
Inside the Tralfamadorian zoo, the human enclosure gets another resident. Which is a movie star named Montana. She doesn't take the news of being abducted and put in a zoo nearly as well as Billy. -
Plane Crash
Billy is involved in a plane crash in Vermont that kills everyone on board except him. Billy, after returning home from the hospital and drives to NYC to be on a late-night radio talk show Where he says how he came unstuck in time. He also says in 1967 he was abducted by a race of fourth-dimensional aliens called "Tralfamadorians" and put in one of their zoos.A month later, billy writes a letter to his town's newspaper, describing the physical appearance of a Tralfamadorian. -
Billy's Death
Billy dies from getting shot in the forehead by a laser gun.
It was after a speech in Chicago about flying saucers and the true nature of time. -
Valencia
Billy's wife dies from an accidental CO2 overdose.
