Chapter 1 In this first chapter, we see that the book is based on real events. Vonnegut, like the narrator, is a veteran of World War II, an earlier prisoner of war, and a witness to a great massacre. Vonnegut shares with us that he can’t write about the horror of Dresden. “There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre,” but he feels that he has to say something. The book shows the author's …showed first 75 words of 1873 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1873 total…traveling. Just like we don’t always have control over our memories. Billy's message in not comforting. If good moments last forever, so does the fire bombing of Dresden. Somewhere, Billy Pilgrim's moment of joy, dozing in the green cart beneath the spring sun, still exists. But somewhere, 130,000 civilians are still being burned. And somewhere, war prisoners will be opening new 'corpse mines' and removing the bodies forever. These events are not erased by time.