“Welcome aboard Mr. Pilgrim”, said the loud speaker [Tralfamadorians] (Vonnegut 76). Slaughter house 5 is a satiric, real life situation novel written by Kurt Vonnegut, an Infantry Scout who served as a Chaplains Assistant, and Prisoner of war whom witnessed the great massacre of the bombing of Dresden survived to tell the tale of the slaughtering effects of the war. The irony of the novel initiates where Kurt Vonnegut includes the transformation of Billy Pilgrims life as a young lad before World War II in 1939-1945, fighting in the war and his afterlife. The fictitious protagonist ‘Billy’ experiences the most drastic and traumatizing conditions he ever did in his life, as a teenager. As a result of the changes and events occurring, Billy begins …show more content…
Throughout the novel, the series of Macarb conditions in the novel, Billy survived it all with valuable lessons to help him cope and move on a fresh in the new world where “everything was beautiful and nothing hurt”. (Vonnegut 122). According to Merriam-Webster Learners Dictionary. Com Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental condition that can affect a person who has had a very shocking or difficult experience such as fighting in a war and that is usually characterized by depression and anxiety. The first symptom of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that Billy exhibits is continuous flashback of the traumatic events in his life. He (Billy) time travels often to an exact point in time during the war, back and forth to the future and back, and even before the war repetitively in no chronological order. Billy’s second symptom of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder involves his variation between chronic emotional turmoil where he develops emotions responding to stimuli from the event that took place. Lastly Billy’s third symptom exhibited was the development of negative of negative/ intrusive changes in his thoughts, belief, feelings and