“You'll pretend to be men instead of children, and in the movies you'll be played by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other charming, war-loving, dirty old men. And the war will look just wonderful, so we will have many more of them. And they will be fought by children like those above” (Vonnegut 14): the speaker of the occasion is Mary O'Hare, who shows the narrator her frustration for wanting to write her book about the war, because she believes that this will glorify the war and encourage her, which will lead to their children, the ones currently playing upstairs in the house they are in, participating in the wars to come, which she doesn't want. “Billy Pilgrim got unstuck in time” (Vonnegut 23): the speaker of the occasion is the narrator, and the occasion is when the narrator reveals that Billy is able to travel in time, so to speak; he actually does this without total control, but is able to time travel at random times and visit from his birth until the time during World War II and his death. “Billy has a spastic rhythm, he has no control over where he goes and the trips aren't necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he will have to act in" (Vonnegut 23): the one who speaks about the occasion is the narrator, and the occasion is at the beginning of the second chapter when confronted Billy has lost control over time, but also feels false in his own life; his lack of conviction makes him non-traditional