Chapter Two: Story structure

The structure in which Vonnegut begins this chapter seems like any other story that I had read.  When he begins to speak of alien abduction and becoming unstuck in time, I became a bit worried.  Vonnegut followed the claims of alien abduction from Billy Pilgrim with telling a story from his war days.  The story begins as just a regular flashback but takes a bit of a turn.  He tells of being unstuck in time and describes several situations within a single microsecond in real time.  Becoming unstuck in time is a difficult concept to describe to a reader.  Vonnegut uses the structure of the story Billy tells to portray the sense of confusion that Billy feels his entire life.  The stories had me looking back to try to remember how we even began to describe the situation I was reading.