Chapter 3 Post 1

In this chapter we find Billy and Weary imprisoned by the Germans. As they go along doing what they are ordered to do, Billy continues to have flashbacks into his past. He goes back to his job and life he had before the war. In his flashbacks "Billy traveled in time". One of them took him to see "into the glass eyes of a jade green mechanical owl", but this is not actually an owl, but "was Billy's optometer in his office in Ilium" (56). He continues to have these flashbacks every time he closes his eyes. I have a feeling that these flashbacks will play a huge role as the novel progresses.