Friday, August 3, 2012
Chapter 8
In chapter eight, Billy meets Kilgore Trout and invites him to his anniversary party. At the party is a quartet singing. This bugs Billy, and he has no reason why. Until later, he has a flashback on the day Dresden was destroyed: "Billy thought hard about the effect the quartet had had on him, and then found an association with an experience he had had a long time ago" (177). He remembered that the guards would speak to each other, and it looked like a silence movie of the quartet. The reader time travels with Billy through his meeting with Trout to Dresden to his life in the zoo on Tralfamore back to Dresden.
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Kilgore Trout and Maggie White's conversation at the Pilgrims' anniversary party gives Vonnegut a chance to comment on the authority bestowed on a writer by a gullible public. Vonnegut suggests that writers create outlandish stories because the reading public wants them to.
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