Slaughterhouse+Five+-+Chapter+4

=Kurt Vonnegut - //Slaughterhouse Five// - Chapter 4 (Nate H)=

<<<--- Back to Chapter 3 --- Slaughterhouse Five Home Page --- Ahead to Chapter 5 --->>>

Characters
Billy Pilgrim Valencia Pilgrim The Champagne Bottle - Dead The Tralfamadorians The 40 Year Old Hobo - Dead Roland Weary - Dead Edgar Derby Paul Lazzaro

Quotations
"It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again." (75)
 * Billy pilgrim was watching a movie backwards and forwards and bombs were being assembled and disassembled and taken out of and put back into the ground.

"Overhead he heard the cry of what might have been a melodious owl, but it wasn't a melodious owl." (75)
 * That was what the Tralfamadorians ship sounded like when they had arrived to retrieve Billy Pilgrim.

"Billy was the next-to-last human being to reach the door. The hobo was the last. The hobo could not flow, could not plop. He wasn't liquid anymore. He was stone. So it goes." (81)
 * The Hobo had died the day before. And now his body was frozen.

"Their penises were shriveled and their balls were retracted. Reproduction was not the main business of the evening." (84)
 * It was very cold in the delousing station the day that they finally got off of the boxcar and arrived in Dresden.

Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Pilgrim