Entry 16, Chapter 8 - Time Travel

     Traveling through time has been a reoccuring idea all throughout the book. The fact that Billy believes he is time traveling shows that the plane crash he was in really messed up his mind. In the media, time traveling has been something really cool to produce movies, books, etc. about from Disney movies like Minutemen, animated movies like Meet the Robinsons, and of course, in science fiction books like Michael Cricton's Timeline.  All of these were entertaining to watch and or read, but if we were to hear about it in real life, we would simply think of the stories as crazy and incredulous, but in the fictional world, we find these stories creative and imaginable. Billy time travels almost constantly throughout the book, making it quite hard to follow, but eventually the stories start to become familiar and you begin to realize that you are tracing his life, just in a different pattern.

Entry 14, Chapter 7 - All Knowing?

     The plane crash Billy Pilgrim was involved with reminded so much of the movie Knowing with Nicholas Cage. In the movie, Nicholas Cage realizes that he has found a peice of paper with thousands of numbers on it that are in fact dates of castrophic events. He follows one of the dates to its location, and there he knows that something bad is going to happen and in fact moments later a place crashes into a fire ball along a highway. Just as Billy experienced, he knew that the event of the crash was going to happen yet he went along with it, just as Nicholas Cage did also. Plus, a plane ended up crashing in which Nicholas was to help save one survivor. Along with gruesome imagery, and pictures in the movie and in the book, Billy and Nicholas experience something very similar; Nicholas even had alien-like people following him!

Entry 12, Chapter 6 - Taken for Revenge

     Lazarro sought revenge for many people, just as the father in the movie Taken.  His daughter in the movie is kidnapped and sold as a sex slave, and for revenge for the evil men taking his daughter, the father comes after the men in sight to hunt and kill them. The father in this movie had a character similar to Lazarro's as flat and with one motive to defend his daughter and seek revenge on those who took her from him. The movie sent its viewers a message about seeking revenge, its not good to dwell on something, but it always seems to be for the right reason.

Entry 8, Chapter 4 - Frozen

     The epithet of "blue and ivory" in Slaughterhouse-Five is an appalling phrase that makes you recall dead bodies that have frozen from extreme cold or the repulsive frost-bite one gets in extreme cold. Whenever Pilgrim used this phrase to describe the frozen and dead bodies of people around him, I couldn't help but remember the dramatic movie The Day After Tomorrow, when a climate shift from global warming freezes over the northern half of the United States, and a group of students find themself in New York City freezes to death and witnessing the castrophe the world had never seen.  The scenes in the movie show ice cold bodies practically as hard as ivory frozen to the streets of New York, and even a picture of the Statue of Liberty buried to its torso and covered in icicles. The repition of this phrase makes me wonder if there is more death and peril to come in the cold days of the war.