Billy's Imagination In Slaughterhouse-Five

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Billy from the book Slaughterhouse-five made it seem like time was irrelevant, and made it seem like the war he was in was not relevant. He claims he travels through time and space so freely which was not possible in the 1940’s. He was not traveling through time he was having vivid flashbacks of the war, and adding his vivid imagination. I believe that his interactions with the tralfamadorians was his imagination and also a copy of the Germans in a way. Billy claimed that he had encounters with aliens called the tralfamadorians which do a lot of what the Germans do. “There were two peepholes inside the airlock-with yellow eyes pressed to them. There was a speaker on the wall” this is when the tralfamadorians captured Billy he was forced on