Slaughterhouse Five, By Billy Pilgrim - 2024 Words

assumed that Billy Pilgrim relives his war-time experiences on a near daily basis. Another thing is that Billy avoids connections with people like his mother, and even his own fiancà ©. The conclusion of this analysis as a whole must therefore be that Billy Pilgrim became â€Å"unstuck† in time (in his own world) due to the events of which he witnessed and/or participated in during World War II. The horror of what was occurring around him, and due to the confusion he felt during the occurrence of these events, his entire mental state degraded to the point where he became locked in viewing the past over and over indefinitely, and into helping himself believe his delusion that he was often taken from the earth to another strange planet he felt†¦show more content†¦Furthermore, it may be concluded that Billy, due to the effects of having been a POW, and having been witness to the full magnitude of destruction of the city that had no reason to be destroyed, suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which lead him to review the events over and over during the course of his life in different forms and memories. In order to understand how these drastic factors, the destruction of the city Dresden and ‘PTSD’, came to make Billy Pilgrim â€Å"unstuck† in time, one must analyze and look over the circumstances surrounding those same events. He is clearly suffering from PTSD with the symptoms of flashbacks about the events he went through in his past, his relationships with people aren’t strong and seem forced, and he collides memories with reality. The human mind is a complicated part of the body which current-day science knows little about. Trigger mechanisms, and/or other factors within the brain are relatively unknown to current humanity with all of its complexions. Therefore, in order to produce a valid diagnostic on why Billy Pilgrim became â€Å"unstuck† in time (according to the first chapter), the reader of Slaughterhouse Five must come to copping with situations concerning the experiences he went through described in the novel. Billy starts out, chronologically, as a fairly basic infantryman as a part of the United States Army during the last Nazi offensive of the war (World