9. One of Slaughterhouse-Five’s most memorable sequences – and possibly its most famous – comes during an odd mini-time-jump for Billy, where the movie he’s watching on TV starts running in reverse. What does Billy see as the film moves backwards? How does this speak to Vonnegut’s larger messages?

The film that Billy is watching in this scene is a film about war. Billy can see the destruction that war causes, and the way in which this is conducted "blindly" by people. The war appears to be a product of mechanization rather than a project with a clear objective. Whn the film is reversed, Billy is able to see the war going "backwards." Planes and tanks are protecting the city instead of destroying it.

This image allows Vonnegut to explore several messages. It shows that the war can have a different way of expressing itself if we are able to look at it from a different perspective. It also shows that the war can be manipulated by people, and thus, also stopped. Finally, it plays with the concept of time and continuity, which is a dominant theme in the text.

she was trying to use   reliable narrator.

        its hard for some people to get along and that’s the case for douglass and canot. most of the time when people do not agree with each other its because they have different presperctives, and that is the case here.

captain canot was never a slave so but he was a slaver and a slave ship captain and just like the slave master's he tought it was it was totally normal, he used captain conot is a cruel man who enjoys whipping slaves but never   got whipped he saw it has a destiny for the slave to be a slave and the slaver to be a slaver   but douglass has suffered whoppings cut   even for no reason sometimes. douglass believed that slavery was not natural to black people, they need to study and learn how to read and write. he knew they have rights.

it was really not the captain’s fault he was just brainwashed by the system and when your brainwashed by the system its hard not to be brainwashed. but the reason douglass wants this is because he has suffered he knows how it feels and will do anything to stop that.