Slaughter House Five: Chapter 3

More and more I begin to see the outline of how this novel is going to be written. At first, everything was a bit confusing because of how different the 1st and 2nd chapter were in terms of everything.
The story centers around the war and Billy Pilgrim's capture. Although Billy isn't the writer, it seems as though the narrator is Billy himself, only narrating his life in third person. The story really focuses on the events of Billy's capture and where they take him, and his thoughts and what not, but it wanders off into moments in the past or future which have some relation or the other to what is happening during his capture.
It is really interesting to see how life was for Billy during his capture. You seldom hear of what he has to say when you talk about WWII. This capture, which happened to many, is an important experience, even though all the main stories don't focus on this part of the war. Billy, however, doesn't seem to mind. Other characters present in the capture are going through things which Billy himself doesn't seem to experience; as if he was a person unstuck in the moment. He doesn't feel the pain in his feet like Roland Weary. He doesn't know his place in the army, much less does he show affection for his regiment like Wild Bob.
This point is very important to the development of the story, and I've actually seen it in the scenes where Billy is not in the war as well. Billy's uncoming stuck in time means that he's not living any moment in his life anymore, but rather watching his life go by; as though he were sitting in a movie theater watching a film that shows every moment of his life. The consequence of coming unstuck in time then, is worse than death because Billy isn't actually living any single moment of his life anymore, just watching helplessly.