Setting By: Cyleena Rodriguez

This novel occurs in Ilium; a small town in New York in 1944-1945. While Billy Pilgrim travels in time, we travel throughout his entire life when he is "unstuck in time" from 1922-1976. We experience his war time in Germany and when he is captured to the planet Tralfamdore. "And Billy traveled in time to the zoo on Tralfamadore. He was forty-four years old, on display under a geodesic dome." Although the settings are portrayed to be private, Billy Pilgrim creates a public setting. For example, when he opens the french doors at the honey moon. Each environment can be described as negative and very dry. They all include negative diction and when he does experience positiveness it happens to be with a negative atmosphere like after Dresdon has been bombed by the Allies for the Germans to surrender, "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."