Slaughterhouse+Five+-+Chapter+9

=Kurt Vonnegut - //Slaughterhouse Five// - Chapter 9 (Rhonda)=

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Notes and Comment
Valencia drives to the hospital where Billy is recovering from the plan crash. She hits another car on the way, and drives from the scene of the accident. An hour later she dies. Billy is unconscious. In the next bed a professor named Bertiam Capeland Rumford is recovering from a skiing accident. Rumford is the official Air Force historian, and he is working on a condensed history of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II. He has to write a section on the bombing of Dresden. When Billy first regains consciousness, every one thinks it has left him as a vegetable. He is preparing to tell the world about Trafamdore. Billy tells Rumford that he was in Dresden for the bombing. Billy drives to NYC. Barbra goes to see her father in the hospital, but the doctor's have her so drugged up just so she can function right. Her brother shows up but not in regular outfit he shows up in a uniform from the world war ll.

Billy's lying in a tomb on wheels. The coffin shaped wagon symbolizes death
 * other Notes:** The day after the Germans surrender.

Quotations
"The cattle are lowing, The baby awakes. But the little Lord Jesus No crying he makes." (197)
 * He's saying that Billy never cries but when he's by him self he often finds him self crying a lot.

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom always to tell the difference." (209)
 * He's saying that he wants god to give him the power to accept the things that he can not change but, deal with what he can change and will do it.

"Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly what he does. I learned that on Tralfamadore." (198)
 * He's saying you can't worry about whats happing before or after you have to worry about what your doing now.

Links
Make any links by clicking on the globe icon with the chain on it (there are two of them, you want the one on the left) There are two types of links to make: I can help with both of these.
 * 1) [|CO poisoning (like what happened to Valencia)]
 * 2) Scot's page on fire bombing of Dresden

There is much more that you can do, but this will be a start. Delete what I have typed here (section by section so that you don't get rid of the headings or lines) and fill it with your own information.