Chapter 9 Post 1

This chapter begins with Billy still in the hospital after his plane crash accident. When he wakes up there is a man in the bed next to him. This man is a college professor. He is writing a paper on the booming success of the Dresden raid. He said that it was kept a secret for so long "for fear that a lot of bleeding hearts might not think it was such a wonderful thing to do" (191). I feel that this makes him a stock character. I say this because a lot of military and media people hide the real truth just to keep people from getting upset. People should have known about the raid as soon as it happened but they kept it from them just as the media does a lot of the time today. This, to me, makes his a very stereotypical character.