Billy board a plane that he knows is going to crash. A barbershop quartet of optometrists called the Four-eyed Bastards serenade the passengers. Billy remember a public hanging he witnessed in Dresden in which a Polish man died for having sexual realtions with a German woman.
Billy dozes off and goes back to war and tells the Three Musketeers to go on without him.
The plane crashes into Sugarbush Mountain in Vermont, and Billy survives with a fractured skull. Billy whispers “Schlachthof-fünf” (“Slaughterhouse-Five”in German), a phrase he learned in Dresden in order to communicate the address of his prison if he got lost. The ski instructors transport Billy down the mountain on a toboggan. Billy is unconscious for two days, but the dreams he has that are real are about time travel. He goes back to Dresden and his first evening at the slaughterhouse, when he, Edgar Derby, and their young German guard Werner Gluck accidentally open a door onto a shower room full of beautiful, naked girls. The three men finally make it to the prison kitchen. All the malnourished prisoners who work at the factory secretly eat the syrup themselves, scooping it out of vats with spoons hidden in every corner of the building. Billy takes his first spoonful on his second day at work, and his scrawny body shivers with “ravenous gratitude.” Billy hands a syrupy spoon through a window to Edgar Derby, who is working outside. When Derby tasted the syrup, he bursts into tears of joy until someone started coming and the spoon was hidden.
My favorite quote from this chaper was, "He knew it was going to crash, but he didn't want to make a fool of himself by saying so." Pg. 154
This quote shows how Billy knows what is coming, but doesn't really care to show much interest about life. He rather let people die then warn them the plane will crash. I still don't understand how Billy thinks, so it really interests me.
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