Owen M’s Reviews > Slaughterhouse-Five > Status Update

In the camp, Billy is forced to take a shower. When Billy got his clothes back, they weren't any cleaner, but all the little animals that had been living in them were dead.

The German soldiers checked all the Americans. The person who was the healthiest was an old teacher, and the worst was a car thief with rotting skin and teeth.

Billy was sleepwalking and keeping everyone up; he now can't fall asleep or sometimes sleep standing up

Billy goes to a new Ilium Government Center and a Pavilion of the Arts. He listens to a speaker who was big in the Marines.

Billy Pilgrim can't sleep as he is very excited about his daughter's wedding. He talks about his time in the army and how the bombers used to take the shells back to base and have them shipped to America. There, the shell would be melted down to be used for other things. Women would usually be the ones working in these places.

They visited an abandoned railway. The only thing there was a hospital train cart

He was reading different bumper stickers and thinking about their significance

He talks about someone named Billy who writes a letter about how he was kidnapped by Aliens. He talks about the ways that the aliens see things differently, like how they can see 4 dimensions and they know that nobody dies, and all of time co-exist.

He talks about how someone had their town turned to fire and brimstone and was told not to look back, but she does anyway. He compares this to people looking back at the past, like how he was writing his war books.

He reads about some children in history who were used in war and as slaves. He and his two girls go to New York to see some early vehicles