Billy Pilgrim's Journey

In the Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, we are introduced to the main character, Billy Pilgrim. He is an average guy, who has no special qualities, however, does have the ability to travel through time. My interpretation of the reading and Billy’s time travel is that he suffers from a traumatic mental illness, which could have led, him to hallucinate his time travels and alien abduction. There are two connections I found that could have encouraged Billy’s behavior, becoming a prisoner of war during his service in WWII and his aircraft incident many years later. When Billy was a prisoner of war he became aware of his ability to time travel, there he was able to see his life from beginning to end. This time period could have lead Billy