Chapter Four

In chapter four, the reader begins to time travel or flashback through Billy's life. In one paragraph of the story we begin to flashback to World War Two: "The terrific accleration of the saucer as it left Earth twisted BIlly's slumbering body, distorted his face, dislodged him in time, sent him back to the war" (77). We go back an forth between the war and his abduction by the Tralfamadorians. In between there, we go back to him being bathed by his mother when he was only an infant. These flashbacks occur in every chapter, from one event to the next.