Slaughterhouse+Five+-+Chapter+3

=Kurt Vonnegut - //Slaughterhouse Five// - Chapter 3 (Eric)=

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Notes and Comment
Chapter three was a weird back and forth chapter. He travels back and forth between WWII, his office, back to WWII, to the black ghetto, and once again back to WWII. This chapter was hard to follow the first time you read it. But this is an interesting chapter. My favorite part was when Billy and Weary were captured and Weary was forced to walk in clogs and was complaining and crying the hole time. But pretty much after that it is just Billy Pilgrim being loaded on to a trian that stopped at various prisons/ concentration camps. You will meet a guy named "Wild Bob" who suffered from illness and died even before he got on the train. Pretty much if you can follow thke traveling in time then this would be one of the best chapters in the book, only because it travels so many times.

Quotations
"Weary was crying from the pain in his feet". I like this line because it shows that even though as Americans we can be humiliated so easily.

"The dog, who had sounded so ferocious from in the winter distances, was a femal German shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning by a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess." Even though something sounds mean or like you don't want to mess with, never just back down and worry.

"Those boots were almost all he owned in this world." During the war that was pretty much what the people had. It was a crazy war for the people then.

Links

 * 1) http://www.thevoiceforlove.com/serenity-prayer.html
 * 2) http://www.nps.gov/archive/inde/Franklin_Court/Pages/archgeorge.html