“Now Billy and the rest were being marched into the rums by their guards I was there O'Hare was there. We had spent the past two nights in the blind innkeeper's stable. Authorities had found us there. They told us what to do.” (Pg. 271)
Vonnegut previously wrote in first person when adding himself as a character in the text, but it isn’t till now (the end of the book) he is relating his own experiences with Billy’s experiences. As we know, Vonnegut (just like Billy’s character), was taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge, sent to the city of Dresden, stayed in “Slaughterhouse- Five”, worked in a factory that produced nourishing syrup, survived the bombing of Dresden by burrowing in the meat locker, burned the bodies of thousands killed, and watched a friend shot dead for taking a teapot from the rummage of what was left of Dresden. This is the point in Slaughterhouse-Five that readers see the story is not just Billy Pilgrim’s experiences at war but also Vonnegut’s. What also leads readers to believe that Billy Pilgrim is the disguised bias of Vonnegut was hidden within chapter eight. Thus far- throughout the entirety of the book-Vonnegut wrote Billy’s character to flashback moments in his life: to