Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 7 Post 1 of 2

     The book's main character Billy Pilgrim presents characterization in a new light. This round character, which has multiple dimensions to his personality, is described in the novel by four points: the three spatial dimensions and time. Vonnegut not only describes how Billy is, but when he is like that. This full understanding of Billy Pilgrim as a whole gives him the depth to be a round character. What bolsters his identity is Pilgrim's time tripping. Zipping in and out of periods of time gives the reader a full understanding of Pilgrim and his many dimensions. In chapter seven, "he dreamed millions of things, some of them true. The true things were time-travel," (Vonnegut, 157). Pilgrim's rapid trips through time after the plane crash allow for, in one chapter, the reader to get a good horizon on Billy's round character qualities and compile them to start to understand this character.