Literary Analysis: Time Restraints Don't Hold Vonnegut Bac

In Mother Night and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, the use of being "unstuck" in time, having no time restraints, allows the author to foreshadow important events and create links between events separated in time. Billy Pilgrim, the main character in Slaughterhouse-Five, travels back and forth in time to events that are significant in his life. Just as Pilgrim travels in time, so does Howard W. Campbell, Jr. from Mother Night. There are significant differences in …

…events in the character's life. Mother Night has no time restraints as well, but this book contains flashbacks to differ itself from the characteristic episodic structure novels rather than being "unstuck" in time. Again, Vonnegut is able to show connections between important events in this book and decrease the suspense by outlining the story at the very beginning. This causes the reader to thirst for more after given only a little taste of the plot.