"And then Billy was a middle-aged optometrist again, playing hacker's golf this time - on a blazing summer Sunday morning." (85)
This quote is one example of a flashback. Throughout the book, Billy Pilgrim has flashbacked to many different parts of his life. He flashes back to the war, his childhood, his adulthood, and his trips to Tralfamadore. These flashbacks are constantly coming and going from one to the other. At first this was confusing, but it has gotten easier to keep things straight. I think the purpose of the flashbacks is to show how bad the war really was. Also, it shows the effects of war on a person simultaneously. I think this makes it easier to relate the two. I think the flashbacks are also effective because it shows the view of war after the fact and not during the war when emotions are high during actual combat. It also shows more of an accurate depiction of war's effect on people.
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