Literary Term - Chapter Five: Flashbacks

In Chapter Five, there are a lot of Billy Pilgrim's time travel moments. Billy Pilgrim would "go to sleep and wake up as a widower in his empty home in Ilium" or would travel "from [Montana Wildhack's] delightful bed to a bed in 1968. It was his bed in Ilium...." These are flashbacks in Billy Pilgrim's mind. Flashbacks are scenes that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time. Billy Pilgrim's dreams are like flashbacks into his memories and when he awakes, he is back at his home in Ilium in 1968.