Chapter 8 Post 1

In this chapter we meet a commander of a unit that was supposed to only fight on the Russian front. His name is Howard W. Campbell. When we meet him, Vonnegut introduces him with direct characterization. He writes, "Campbell was an ordinary-looking man, but he was extravagantly costumed in a uniform of his own design. He wore a ten-gallon hat and black cowboy boots..." (162) and continues to give us a word for word description of this new character. Vonnegut is very detailed and leaves nothing up the imagination which makes this direct characterization.