Trafalmadore vs Dresden

War must only be entertaining when your in all the action and not marching towards a camp.  Life must be fairly simple when your in the second situation because Billy Pilgrim has a lot of time for daydreaming.  He must have way to much free time if he has the time to come up with a whole future life for himself. Yup, definitely too much free time! He wakes up in 1967 once again and it is the night after Barbara's wedding.  He is watching a Second World War movie forwards and then backwards.  Billy really focuses on the movie when it plays backwards. I guess that maybe he wishes life and war were like the movie when it plays backwards. If life could fix things and major worldly issues then we would not be in the tough situation that we are in at the moment.  We wouldn't have a violent history and the world would be a happy peaceful place.  Adam and Eve appear again when Pilgrim wishes that the world would have stayed perfect when these two perfect people were alive.  This chapter has a lot of symbolism.  In his opinion everything is dead and cold.  He describes corpses as ivory and blue which only helps me picture what someone dead may look like.  While he is walking to the waiting flying saucer he describes his bare feet as ivory and blue while saying the champagne is dead.  When he enters the saucer he describes what it looks like and what the trafalmadorians are like. He says that time doesn't matter to them and that everything is what it is.

He awakes back in Germany on the moving train. While on the train no one allows Pilgrim to fall asleep on the floor. They all had stories of what he had done to them in his sleep.  I feel bad for him because when I was little my sisters didn't like it when I slept in their room or bed.  They both would have sleepovers in each other's room and I would never be invited because I spoke and kicked in my sleep.  Billy Pilgrim and I are very similar in that way.  When they arrive at the camp Pilgrim realized that Trafalmadore and Dresden are very similar. They have many of the same buildings, the first order was for him to take off his clothes, and they didn't speak english.  While naked, the Germans were preparing the showers and inspecting them.  The man with the best body, according to Pilgrim, would get shot in 67 days by a firing squad.  When they all enter the shower and the water comes on, Pilgrim has a flashback of when his mother was bathing him when he was just a baby.