Chapter 5, Imagery

Vonnegut uses imagery throughout chapter five. For example, when Billy says, "The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes- 'with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other,'" it is very easy for me to visualize earth as the Tralfamadorians do (87). He also uses imagery when he says, "He delivered himself to a barbed-wire fence which snagged him in a dozen places. Billy tried to back away from it, but the barbs wouldn't let go" (123). This statement evokes the sense of pain that Billy must have felt when he was caught in the barbwire. Vonnegut does a great job of evoking images and feelings of the reader throughout chapter five through his use of imagery.