VII. The Open Window

Chapter nine wasn’t a very interesting chapter, compared to all the other ones I’ve read of Slaughter House-five. Even though what I found most interesting was when trout asks Billy if he had ever looked to the future through an open window and he says no, and is completely blanked out and Valencia then tells him he looks like he had seen a ghost. Billy, who was really agitated, goes to his room to try to calm the stress.

I think Billy was in a shock because he realized how he could time travel through, and see different events and thing that occurred, and be traumatized the same way as if he didn’t time travel and the book emphasizes in this particular moment because Billy hasn’t time traveled in this part.