Slaughter House Five

    The book I chose to read for my outside reading is Slaughter House Five. When I first started reading it, it was really confusing and I had to re read it a couple of times. I figured that I should just keep reading then it would start to make sense, and it kind of did. I mostly just got confused about the time travel, because the setting and time changed a lot so the characters were all over the place. On one page they would be dead and then they would be alive again or there would all of the sudden be diffrent characters. I thought the book would be more about the war and aliens and have more fighting and be more exciting. But it's not that bad of a book, just boring at times.
     The litterary element I chose to write about is the characters in the book and how Billy changed towards them when he figured out that he could travel through time. In the book it didn't really show how Billy actually felt about his family and friends. It was like he had this wierd detachment and he didn't really care about his family on Earth. It did seem like he cared about Montana (his wife in space though), which seemed a bit wierd to me. At times it was like he didn't even care about his wife and kids and then at other times he really did. It was hard to keep up with.
    I think this book relates to the movie Inception, because in Inception the main character has a wierd relationship with his family, (real and fake) because of his constant trips to a diffrent reality. Also the main characters in both stories have troubles with there pasts. There traveling back and forth to diffrent worlds/realities also messes up how they view the whole world.
   I was planning on making a movie for my creative project, but know that I've actually read the book it might be a bit hard. If I made a movie, some of the parts would have to be cut out, but not so much that it ruins the whole movie. Plus I would somehow have to make an alien costume and a giant dome. Even though making a movie seems like it would be really hard, I think I might do it anyways. I really don't wanna right a peom or a song. There are other things I could do, I just don't think they would be as fun.