From Past, To Present, To Future

In this chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim has lost control of his life. He says that: “He hadn’t been missed, he said, because the Tralfamadorians had taken him through a time warp, so that he could be on Tralfamadore for years, and still be away from earth for only a microsecond.”(Slaughterhouse-five, chapter 2, pg 26) This reminds me of the movie Narnia because, when the kids went into the wardrobe and into Narnia they could spend many months and days there and still be represented as minutes in the real world. Also Billy Pilgrim describes the Tralfamadorians as: “They were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber’s friends……extremely flexible, usually pointed at the sky. At the top of each shaft was a little hand with a green eye in its palm.”(Slaughterhouse-five, chapter 2,pg 26)Also I can relate this to Narnia because the habitants of Narnia were also like weird looking figures, and deformed. In the movie Narnia the kids could go into Narnia and into their normal world whenever they wanted to in order to escape bad moments or to remember where they belong to. In the book, Billy Pilgrim can do something similar and escape the moments where he does not feel well and wants to remember his past.
Like when Billy was in the middle of the war and he suddenly moves to when he is old, or when he is young has to re-live those moments. Billy certainly has been in war for a lot of time and has experiences every aspect of it, and in a way all of his life is attached to war. And when he is in the middle of the war he just wants to escape it and find a past moment in his life depending on his feelings: "And then Billy swung into life again, going backwards until he was in pre-birth." Here we can see how the author is trying to link every part of Billy’s life with war.