"Somebody behind him in the boxcar said, 'Oz.' That was I. That was me. The only other city I'd ever seen was Indianapolis, Indiana." - pg. 148
Suddenly, the perspective from which the book is told changes. Why would the author interrupt the story that he has been telling since the beginning of chapter two and go back to the style of chapter one? It serves as a reminder to the reader that the story that is ongoing may be fiction, but it is rooted in fact. Most lies have some truth at the heart of them. That is the way I see this story. Vonnegut has no intentions of trying to convince us that Billy Pilgrim's story actually happened, and he directly states that. However, he does base the story in fact. His little clips fromt he war reflect how it actually was. He just uses a fictional character to portray what goes on.
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