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Slaughterhouse-Five - Coggle Diagram

- - - - a cab driver; took Vonnegut and O'Hare to the slaughterhouse where they were imprisoned
      - was a German prisoner of the Americans; his mother perished in the bombing of Dresden
      - one of the two people the book was dedicated to
    - - the wife of Bernhard V. O'Hare; a trained nurse
      - disliked Vonnegut at first as she thought that his book would glorify and encourage war
      - one of the two people the book was dedicated to; contributes to the alternate title of the book: "The Children's Crusades"
    - - struggled and outlined for twenty-three years to complete the book; ultimately resolved not to look back and published it
      - the writer of the story; was once an American soldier who got captured as a prisoner in Dresden
      - spent a night in a Boston hotel on his way to Dresden, where his perception of time was distorted
    - - an American old war buddy of Vonnegut's; a district attorney in Pennsylvania
      - met and chatted with Vonnegut at home, recalling the war and sharing stories
      - went back to the slaughterhouse in Dresden with Vonnegut where they had been locked up as POWs
- - - - daughter of Billy Pilgrim; married an optometrist
      - questioned Billy's words about the Tralfamadorians and time travelling in disbelief
      - distressed by Billy's senile behaviors; was the head of the Pilgrim
        family
    - - the son of Billy Pilgrim
      - joined the Green Berets (The United States Army Special Forces) and fought in Vietnam
      - was a baseball player and member of a Little League team
    - - first came unstuck in time in 1944 under a tree during a trek after the Battle of the Bulge, travelling back and forth throughout his lifetime
      - firmly stated that he was abducted by the Tralfamadorians in 1967, and that time is nonlinear
      - the narrator of the chapter; was a chaplain's assistant in WWII and later became a wealthy optometrist
    - - an American anti-tank gunner who fell in with Billy after the Battle of the Bulge
      - cruel, violent, braggy, and insecure; beat up Billy after being abandoned by the scouts
      - imagined him and the two other scouts as the Three Musketeers; fantasized his actions of rescuing Billy as gallant heroism
- - - - is disarmed and raided; his combat boots are taken and receives clogs
      - marches with Billy into Germany, his feet raw and bloody from the ill-fitting clogs
      - is used as a German propaganda to show that the American Army is ill-equipped
    - - a colonel from Cody, Wyoming who lost an entire regiment
      - has double pneumonia, high fever, and vertigo
      - dies due to severe illness
    - - comes unstruck in time to his optometry office then a Lions Club luncheon
      - marches with the other captives to Germany and gets on a boxcar to the interior prison camp
      - has to nap daily for his frequent weeping and has a plaque to guide him through listlessness
    - - a former vagrant who was forty years old
      - tells Billy that he has been in worse places
      - is optimistic yet delusional
- - - - a former high school teacher in Indianapolis; forty-four years old and strong
      - has a son serving in the marines in the Pacific theater
      - would die in the Dresden by a firing squad
    - - a car thief from Cicero, Illinois
      - is tiny and has an ill-built body with rotten teeth and disgusting skin
      - promises Weary to make Billy pay for his death
    - - dies by the ninth day of the boxcar journey due to starvation
      - his last words were: "You think this is bad? This ain't bad."
      - contributes to the satire tone of the novel
    - - comes slightly unstruck in time and watches a movie about American bombers in reverse
      - is kidnapped by the Tralfamadorians on the night of his daughter's wedding
      - time-travels to his infancy then his middle ages
    - - dies by the ninth day of the boxcar journey due to gangrene in his feet
      - blames Billy for his death and yearns to be avenged
      - is delirious and raves of the Three Musketeers and his family
    - - wife of Billy Pilgrim
      - undergone a hysterectomy and is infertile
    - - does not understand the concept of 'free will'
      - views time structures as immutable and unexplainable: it simply is
      - has yellow eyes and communicates telepathically; kidnaps Billy
- - - - a science fiction novel writer; Billy's favorite living author
      - his books contain good insights and ideas yet are poorly-written
      - lives in Ilium, friendless and despised; would eventually meet Billy
    - - suffers from the aftereffects of war; introduces Billy to the science fiction novels of Trout, which provide escapism
      - an ex-infantry captain; mistook a fireman for a German soldier and shot him
      - attempts to find meaning in life by acting ardently sympathetic towards people
    - - have been imprisoned for years; dignified and spirited, is respected by the Germans
      - welcome the Americans enthusiastically with a cheerful banquet and a musical performance
      - quickly began to loath the miserable state of the American soldiers
    - - a pornographic motion picture star
      - is brought to the Tralfamadorian zoo as Billy's mate; goes into hysterics
      - eventually comes to trust Billy and sleeps with him
    - - is drugged and executed by a firing squad in Dresden
      - is captured after surrendering to the Germans to avoid being killed
      - volunteers to watch over Billy in the hospital shed
    - - an Englishman who has fiery red hair and no eyebrows
      - is disgusted by the wretched, nasty Americans
      - breaks Lazzaro's right arm after catching him stealing
    - - is enclosed in a Tralfamadorian zoo with Montana as specimens, in which his idea of predestination is reinforced
      - is housed with a group of Englishmen; goes hysterical and receives a shot of morphine
      - examines a boy whose father is killed in Vietnam while sharing Tralfamadorian insights; is suspected to be going insane
    - - has a severe bellyache and a shrunk stomach
      - breaks one arm after attempting to steal cigarettes from an Englishman
      - puny, weak, dirty, and thieving
    - - an affectionate, pleasant, and supportive wife; loves Billy dearly
      - goes on a honeymoon with Billy in New England; is proud of Billy being a soldier
      - an ugly, large woman; the daughter of a wealthy optometrist
    - - a former American playwright turned Nazi propagandist
      - wrote a monograph on the pathetic and undignified state of the American soldiers
      - would later hang himself while awaiting trial as a war criminal
- - - - tall and weak as Billy, who was in fact his distant cousin; ludicrously armed
      - accidentally led the three into a communal shower with naked girls bathing
      - a 16-year-old German who guarded Billy and Derby at Slaughterhouse-Five
- - - - went to the slaughterhouse to recruit men for "The Free American Corps", a military unit that was to fight on the Russian front
      - an ordinary-looking man that was costumed extravagantly in his self-made uniform
      - attempted to lure the Americans into recruiting by offering food and repatriation
    - - rebuked Campbell fiercely and publicly for his actions
      - spoke of the American ideals and its brotherhood with the Russians, stating that Nazism would be crushed
      - an "idealistic character" who rose to his finest moment in life
    - - lived in a rented basement in Ilium and worked as a circulation man for the newspapers
      - a bitter man whose novels were unrecognized and had ever received only one letter - from Rosewater
      - became acquainted with Billy and attended his anniversary party; had great insights into Billy
    - - demanded small favors from Billy, such as to tell her a story
      - six months pregnant, big and rosy
      - was told about the Dresden bombing, the destruction it brought, and how the guards resembled a quartet