Form, Structure and Plot By: Cyleena Rodriguez

While the Billy Pilgrim travels through time he experiences several flashbacks with major events  of his past life in war. Foreshadowing is also experienced in the novel while the narrator covers Billy's life before beginning the story.The conflict in the novel is when Billy figuring out life after his experience in war. As he sobs uncontrollably it shows us Billys post traumatic stress disorder from the war. "So they were trying to re-invent themselves and their universe... Science fiction was a big help." The rising action involves when Billy and the prisoners are being transported across Germany and living in the slaughter house while working in Dresdon. When Dresdon is bombed and Billy is not around to experience it,  it creates the climax of the story. As Billy undergoes struggle with differentiating real life with time travel and begins to be wise towards others after his experience with the Trafalmadorians creates the fallling action of the story. "I am a tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is."As the structure of this novel does not reflect a "stereotypical" structure, Vonnegut shows the absurdity of war and Billy.