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Blog #1: I am reading the book __SlaughterHouse Five__ by Kurt Vonnegut. I predict that this book will be about the life of a person in World War II. I think this will be a somewhat gruesome book if it is about the war. I hope the book is good.

Blog #2: 9/2/11 I am on page 43. Billy Pilgrim is a strange guy. At first he was doing well but after he got injured in the plane crash he became different. Billy writes about the Tralfamadorians and everyone thinks he is crazy. I find it interesting that he knows so much about them. He describes them as green, two feet tall, and and the look like plumbers' friends. I personally think that he is senile because it isn't possible that he was taken. But he does say that microsecond on Earth can equal years on Tralfamadore so it could be possible. It is interesting that he can relive a memory in no specific order. He can jump to when he was 21 and he can jump all the way to when he will be 90. This book is interesting and I look forward to reading more of it.

Blog #3: 9/9/11 I am on page 104. The quote I chose is "That is a very //Earthling// question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why //you//? Why //us// for that matter? Why //anything//? Because this moment simply is (73)." This quote is by one of the Tralfamadorians that took Billy when he asked Why me. I think that this quote is important because it explains why things happen. The quote says that everything happens because it has to. That means Billy was meant to join the war and become a prisoner of war. Of course, we can change the future by making decisions now.

Blog #4: 9/17/11 I am on page 146. The predictions I made are kind of what I said. He does describe some of the situations he had in the war, but most of them are before he goes to Dresden. He does an awful lot of going back and forth from the war. I 've noticed that Billy is someone not liked in the war. Everyone hates him because he yells and talks during his sleep. He also shows that he is unstable qhen it comes to his emotions. I'm happy that I chose this book. For the summer reading for honors english, I had the choice of reading this book. I didn't read it and know I wish I read it.

Blog #5: 9/28/11 __Characters__: __Summary__: Billy is drafted during World War II and he has to deal with the hardships of war and learns about the nature of people. He gets abducted by the Tralfamadorians and he learns about time travel and how he never dies. Billy becomes a P.O.W. and he deals with time travel going from the past and to the future. He is taken to Dresden and it gets fire-bombed. __Rating__: I give this book a **4**. I trhought that the book was good, but the time travel stuff annoyed me. I didn't like how it jumped from the present to the past to the future and back again. The stuff with the Tralfamadorians also was bothersome because I wanted to know more about his time in World War II. This book was good because it was descriptive and I could imagine the scenes in my head. __Wiki Reflections__: I think that using wikispaces is a good idea for independent reading. It allows a person to write about their thoughts. It also allows people to see what other people think about their book. The use of technology is also important.
 * Billy Pilgrim** is the main character of the story and also the protagonist. He was drafted in the army and was captured becoming a P.O.W.. He lives through the Dresden fire bombing.
 * The Tralfamadorians** abducted Billy and gained the ability of time travel. They gave Billy insight about life.
 * Valencia Pilgrim** is Billy's wife and Billy doesn't like the marriage.
 * Edgar Derby** was a P.O.W. with Billy.