Slaughterhouse-Five: Tralfamadore (5)

I've never gotten so confused over a book in my life, this chapter simply tossed me around throughout the entire twentieth century. I was really confused about where he was standing at each part but little by little it all became clear. Billy had been kidnapped by his good friends the Tralfamadorians and learns about them and about his own human race at the same time. "There were fives sexes on Tralfamadore, each of them performing a step necessary in the creation of a new individual."(Vonnnegut 41). We can see a lot more about Billy's childhood and I think I have com to understand why he is the way he is "The cigarettes belonged to Billy's chain-smoking mother"(Vonnegut 37): that man has suffered trauma from the day he was born.

I was pretty damn sure Kurt Vonnegut was telling his own story through "Billy", i could have bet my life on it, but now I'm not so sure since Billy sees Kurt at the hospital which would be impossible if Billy WAS indeed Kurt. I'm not really sure what we're supposed to understand up to here, ther are many clues in the book but no solution to them. I'm really looking forward to finally being able to understand "who is Billy and why do we care about him?".