Back And Forth

As you read through chapter 4 of Slaughterhouse Five you feel like you jump through time with Billy Pilgrim. Every time he becomes unstuck in time and starts telling you something more about his mysterious you have to follow him. He moves around quite a lot in the chapter.
“When he regained consciousness, he wasn’t on the flying saucer. He was in a boxcar crossing Germany again.” Pg 77.
The author guides you through the story jumping from time to time. As happens in many other books or movies, they don’t write a linear story but they move around all the time. I would think it is also a very interesting way to tell the story. Here Billy Pilgrim jumps from being abducted by aliens back to the war in Germany.
“And then Billy was a middle aged optometrist again, playing hacker’s golf this time.” Pg 85.
And then, only one paragraph below, “Trapped in another blob of amber, Mr. Pilgrim. We are where we have to be just now-three hundred million miles from Earth.” Pg 85. Once again Vonnegut moves us around a whole lot. We jump from place to place all the time and move back and forth. Sometimes you even get lost and have to read back and pause for a second but this way makes it a different story than what we are used to and is pretty enjoyable to read.