While
reading a post from Perfection is a Matter of Perception, by Ana
Maria Villaveces I realized we both had similar thoughts. There are many things
in the book that make us connect Kurt Vonnegut and Billy Pilgrim. Sometimes I
think if they are the same person and Vonnegut incorporated his own person
inside Billy Pilgrim, adding in its way different details, emanating from his
imagination.
I
have to disagree with Ana Maria when she says that the most probable situation
is that Billy is a different person from Vonnegut. She has to look outside the
context, search for any sort of connection between them, which actually are
many. Both, Billy Pilgrim and Kurt Vonnegut enlisted in the US Army. Both
witnessed the Dresden bombing, and both where locked inside a slaughterhouse,
incidentally number 5.Therefore, I strongly believe that they are both the same
person, and that Vonnegut is just narrating to us his story. I think that the
person from chapter 1, is Kurt Vonnegut himself narrating how he wants to write
a story about the Dresden massacre, and actually starts writing it in chapter
two. Basically the first chapter of the novel, is sort of a preface,
introducing to us the actual story.
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