Kurt Vonnegut uses a lot of images to enhance the overall effect of Slaughterhouse-Five. Throughout the novel, both in the war scenes and in the protagonist's travels back and forth in time, the numerous images produce a believable account of Billy Pilgrim's unusual life. Vonnegut uses color images, repetitive images, and images of pain and suffering to develop the novel and create situations that the reader can accept and understand. Billy Pilgrim's life is anything but normal. For much of his adult life he has moved back and forth in time, from one event to another, in a non-sequential order. At least, this schizophrenic life is difficult to understand. Because Vonnegut wants the reader to identify with Billy Pilgrim, he uses distinct images to tell the story. One type of images in Slaughterhouse-Five are color images. While Billy is at war, Vonnegut describes several pairs of "blue and ivory" feet. Billy's hands and feet are blue and ivory, as are those of the corpses he glimpses during his march as a prisoner of war (Vonnegut 65). These ...