Characters make or break a book. If someone can get to know a person and feel a connection with them, then the book is doing a fantastic job with character development. Vonnegut makes us feel like we are beside the characters in his story. But in stories like Slaughterhouse five, there are a few characters that are way more important than others. They also do a really good job represent themes in the book.
Let’s start with the main character himself, Billy. Billy is an odd soul that is dealing with things out of this world. Dealing with his PTSD is a big themes in the book. He says he keeps getting “unstuck in time” from the PTSD. Then again at any moment he can be transferred to a different time in his life. We notice that he doesn’t deal