"Leave Billy alone, Billy!"

Vonnegut’s character, Billy, exists through his personality, which is divided in the actual and the fictitious Billy. In chapter five we immediately find ourselves with Billy the pilgrim, or person. The one that lives and does constant actions in a reality that seems reasonable to the audience. “There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects.” (PDF) As mentioned in previous chapters, Billy is able to learn teachings in the Trafalmadorain abductions.

Time travelling is a major characteristic that Billy has, a very unique feature of the book. Billy fast-forward’s and returns to the past continuously, following non atemporal sequence. The present in the novel does not exist, present is brisk and it can be lived while being at the past or future. It is subjected to time and space to determine if the present really exists. He is a character that is undergoing constant change, has to explore his inner thoughts to find himself.

“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”(PDF) This type of quotation illustrates Vonnegut or Billy, the fictional character. It is like having a puppet show, the thoughts are left aside for the audience and the master. While the actions of the puppet (being controlled by the master) are seen but cannot have deeper meaning without the notion of ideas or values. In the novel Billy is in constant struggle or division, he has misplaced thoughts at the wrong settings. This is caused because there are two characters: Billy pilgrim and Billy the legacy. And somewhere in there, the boy's mother went out and told the receptionist that Billy was evidently going crazy. Billy was taken home. His daughter asked him again, 'Father, Father, Father-what are we going to do with you?'(PDF)