Entry 13, Chapter 7 - Imagery

     Billy used vivd imagery to describe the plane crash he was involved in by saying that." the young people in bright, elastic clothing and enormous boots and goggles, bombed out of their skulls with snow, swinging through the sky in yellow chairs." Billy tends to reveal to his audience what he thinks things look like. Images tend to stick in one's mind, like after reading the above description one can think that the skiers that rescued him from the plane crash were ostentatious and were quite dedicated to their hobby of skiing.Revealing these pictures to the audience pretty much give away exactly what kind of opinions Billy had formed concerning his rescuers.

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 11, Chapter 6 - Flat Character

     A flat character is a character who displays only one or two personality traits, and that is exactly what Paul Lazarro is. The man threatens Billy Pilgrim's life after Weary dies in his arms on the train, and as Weary's dying request he wanted someone to please avenge his death which was caused by Billy. Throughout the story, Lazzaro is seeking vengeance on not only Billy, but many other people who have stood in his way as he told Billy that," he was going to have him killed after the war." Lazzaro shows one and only one side to his personality, that he is always looking for revenge and is bloodthristy. The threats he made were not to be fulfilled until many years later, but with Billy's time travel, he knows that Lazarro will follow through with his threats. Lazarro's flat character in the end show his dominance over Billy in the end.

Entry 10, Chapter 5 - Comedians

     Without satire, the world would be an unpleasant place with moody people in dramatic situations. whenever I think of satire, I think of comedians. Comedians have a special talent of making quiet, awkward situations into situtions filled with laughter by just making a funny comment. Crowds will go wild in hysterical laughter when comedians like Jim Gaffigan, Larry the Cable Guy, or even Joan Rivers. Pilgrim relieves drama in his stories through satire; he might be describing a supposed rumor as to how someone died, but at the end of the passage he will make some comical remark to lessen the severity of the rumor.
 

Entry 9, Chapter 5 - Satire

     Satire provides a story with humor, and in the middle of a book concerning war, satire is something useful in order to calm the reader down and make them understand and enjoy the story rather than just sympathize with. Billy Pilgrim randomly mentions humorous events like his dream he once had while under morphine in a hospital when." giraffes accepted Billy as one of their own, as a harmless creature...they had horns like doorknobs. The knobs were covered in velvet." What significance does this small passage have? In other parts of the chapter, Billy offers his insight on situations like being in a zoo, arguing with his daughter, and listening to Englishmen with funny comments and retorts.

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.

Entry 7, Chapter 4 - Epithet

     In chapter four, I noticed that Billy Pilgrim began using the phrase "blue and ivory" to describe various feelings in his feet to the look of the dead. If someone was to describe another person's feet as blue, I would assume their feet were very cold and lacking in circulation. Then, the word ivory makes me think that the feet are stone, and not moving as if circulation was nonexistent. Billy repeated this phrase many times in the book thus far as to describe his own feet as,"he looked down at his bare feet, They were ivory and blue," just as he described his hands as," a blue and ivory claw hooked over the sill of the veniliator." Blue and ivory are adjectives that have been used to describe coldness in one's body or in someone else's body, who is usually dead cold.