Chapter 7

This is the first chapter that we get suggestions that Billy's alien accounts are relevant to the story, and that his time-traveling might actually serve a purpose in understanding who exactly he is.  As BIlly experiences many more flashbacks and flash-forwards, we start to question his identity for it is hard to understand a character who we see as an infant, a husband, a POW, and a man abducted by aliens.  However, the Tralfamadorians share a theory with Billy that they see the universe in four dimensions (length, width, depth, and time).  They claim that it is a major flaw of earthlings that they do not see this way.  I fell that Billy has become so absorbed with his fictional world that he strives to see the world as the Tralfamadorians see it.  Therefor he flashes back and forth through time and through his life in an attempt to understand his life better.  We now see just how strong of a hold the world he has created has impacted his real life, so much to the point that it has completely altered his view of the world.