So far this semester, I think Slaughterhouse Five has been my favorite book to read and discuss. One thing that came up multiple times throughout the discussion of this novel was whether it was successful in its goal of portraying war as accurately as possible, with no sugarcoating or glorification. I personally think that this novel did do a good job of that, especially of showing how big of an impact war can have on its veterans after the war. I think that Billy was a good 'poster-child' for a war veteran. He fought at a young age, and saw and experienced many horrors of war that stayed with him for life. His family around him treated him as if he was slowly going insane, but he felt that he was completely justified. Even we, the readers, debated over whether the events that Billy describes were true or just a figment of his imagination. Billy wasn't the type of war hero or role model archetype that anyone would envy or try to take after. He wasn't portrayed as &