Chapter 3

In chapter three, we learn more and more about Billy's experience during World War Two. At the start of the chapter, Billy and Roland Weary are getting captured by the Germans. The commander has two teenage boys with him. The narrator describes one of the boys with a simile: "The boy was as beautiful as Eve" (53). The quote was not just a simile but an allusion as well. As the chapter goes on, we time travel to his job as an optometrist and back to the war.