He uses it to describe his breath late at night when he makes phone calls to people he hasn't seen in a long time. Mustard gas and roses: This is the narrator's repeating motif for something that smells bad or rotten. She is afraid that he will write a book glorifying the war, which will encourage more wars to happen, making it necessary for her babies to fight in wars someday. They see time as something constant, where events always have happened, are happening, and will happen, as opposed to how Earthlings are stuck in the present and live moment-to-moment.Ĭhildren's Crusade: The narrator promises Mary O'Hare that he will subtitle his book 'The Children's Crusade' after she angrily tells him that they were just babies when they fought in the war. The Tralfamadorians look like toilet plungers with little hands. He is able to time-travel and often travels to his future there while he is fighting in the war. Tralfamadore: Tralfamadore is the planet which Billy says he was taken in a saucer. Slaughterhouse: Billy and the other Americans are kept as prisoners of war in a slaughterhouse in Dresden, Germany. Billy is held as a prisoner of war in Dresden, and is there for the bombing Dresden: Dresden is a city in Germany which was firebombed during World War II.
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