Kurt Vonnegut uses many images to enhance the overall effect of Slaughterhouse-Five. Throughout the novel, both in the war scenes and in the protagonist's travels through time, the numerous images produce a believable story 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 far from normal. For most of his adult life, he moved back and forth in time, from one event to the next, in 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 imagery to tell the story. One type of imagery in Slaughterhouse-Five is color imagery. While Billy is at war, Vonnegut describes several pairs of "blue and ivory" feet. Billy's hands and feet are blue and ivory, just like those of the corpses he sees on his march as a prisoner of war (Vonnegut 65). These ...