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Summary Of Slaughterhouse Five
The story of slaughterhouse five is happened in 1944 in Germany “Dresden” and Ilium, upstate New York this to places are the most important in slaughterhouse five. In Germany in the city of Dresden, the narrator tells about his painful experience and the violence in the World War II, the mistreating in the war and the painful which causes Billy to become unstuck in time. In Ilium is a fictional home town that created by Vonnegut throughout the novel and in this city we notice that Billy has a normal life, he gets his studies on both high school and optometrist school, he marries and he has two children in Ilium. There are two other important places in the novel are the planet of tralfamadore and the hospital. Tralfamadore is the

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