Schlachtof

Wakes up in prison.
     Going to Dresden.
     Falls asleep and when he wakes up he is building a latrine. 
1976
     China drop a hydrogen bomb in Chicago.
     U.S. divided into 20 nations.
     Billy was killed but then sent back to 1945.

Schlachtof Funf

Billy couldn't sleep on his daughter's wedding night.
      He new that the aliens were coming for him.
WWII bomber story was told backwards and stopped with Adam and Eve.
Saucer
     100 ft diameter.
     Opened up and took Billy inside of it.
There is no "why" as to why Billy was chosen to go with the aliens.
Everyone told Billy to leave them alone while trying to sleep.
Camp
     Edgar Derby is 40 years old.
     Paul Lazarro is in the worst shape of the men.
Billy wakes up and is wondering how he got were he is.
Aliens eyes are yellow.


"Valley of the Dolls" by Jacqueline Susann
     Only book that Aliens had for billy.
Went threw a time warp and Billy is 12 years old again.
Back in the war and men singing "Hail,Hail, the Gang's All Here" from The Pirates of Penzance.
A Jerry is a German Soldier
1948
     Billy is back in New York
Rosemater 
     Said people needed to come up with new lies or people won't no how to live anymore.
Back in the war and had to surrender in order to live.
Valencia Merble 
     Billy's Fiance
Aliens 
     Made a new Gospel for the humans.
     Observed Billy's body.
     were 446,120,000,000,000,000 miles from earth.
     Put Billy into a zoo for all to see him on their planet
     They are the ones that destroy the universe in the future and do not want to change that.
Billy
     Back at his wedding night
          Honeymoon is in Indian Summer in New England
1944-Father's Funeral
Said America is wealthy but people are poor.
Everything was beautiful and nothings hurt.
Please leave this Latrine as trily as you found it.

Schlachtof Drei & Schlachtof Vier

Coital
     Sex
War/Sex don't go together
Chaplain
     Religious officer in the military who can be any religion for the cause at hand.
'Where have all the years gone?'
     Our perception on time.
Being a prisoner of poverty is the same as being a prisoner of war.
Billy
     Life is boring and he is lonely.
Saint Elmo's Fire??
Billy's train did not move for 2 days in the Germay.
At the end of the chapter it is 1967 and a saucer from Tralfamader comes back again.

This is Absurd

Absurd means unreasonable.

Something that I find absurd is a talking dog if there ever was one.

Schlachtof Zwei

Reverses the wedding and widow sentence.
Billy
     Has stage fright.
     Doesn't get angry.
     Went back to 1965 to see his mother in the old people home.
     Catholic.
"So it goes"
     Is used after something bad is said.
Flibbertigibbet
     Excessivley talkative person.
Begins to talk about the war alot.
     Weary.
          would hang out with people dumber than him and then beat them up.
          Served with Billy.
          Asked Billy about getting stabbed with a triangle blade.
The rest of the chapter is about the war and the narrator continues to go back and forth to events that happened in his life.

Schlachthof Eins

Author is the narrator and a character in the book.
"So it goes"
Mustard gas and roses
      It is horrible but good at the same time.
Stays up after his wife is asleep to call ex girlfriends.
The book about war was a fail
The new book will be fun
Puts things together to describe his experiences he has had.
O'Hore wife doesnt like the war because she doesn't want her children to join and die.
 SCHLACHTHOF EINS-Means ones slaughterhouse.

The Great Gatsby Essay

The Great Gatsby

           The Great Gatsby is a story about a rich man named Jay Gatsby and is told by Nick Carraway. Nick Carraway is just like a normal guy and he becomes friends with Gatsby. Nick Carraway functions The Great Gatsby because he tells the story from his point of view on things. Nick also functions the story because he shows us Gatsby's life and if we didn't no his name then the story would be totally different. 

          Nick is telling the story from how he see's it and this is important because it shapes the story. For example Nick explains everything on how it is from his eyes and it would change the story completely if it was told by another character. For example, if Gatsby was telling the story we would see everything from his perspective and the story would change because it would contain different information on other characters and events that happened. 

           Nick also functions the story because he goes into Gatsby's life for us. An example of this is when Nick is invited to Gatsby's party and Nick does not see him. This shows us that Gatsby does not care for his guests and has other important things to do besides mingling with his guest. Another example is when Nick gets Gatsby to explain how he has feelings for Daisy. This allows us to see that Gatsby cares about some one other than himself and that he will do anything for her.

          None of this would make any sense if we new nothing about Nick. This is because we learn about Nick's life as much as Gatsby's life. If we did not no Nick then there would just be a random character in the story. We would also be left out throughout the story because we would get no information on him at all.

          Nick Carraway is a great narrator for this book because he explains the story really well from his point of view. He also shows us how Gatsby lives and how it would be different if we did now know his name.