Derangement as a way to escape trauma, similarly, can be reflected in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. As a survivor of the bombing of Dresden in World War II, Billy Pilgrim has turned into a schizophrenic by imagining a trip to a non-existing planet called Tralfamadore, where he acquires the ability to come unstuck in time and gains a new philosophy of life. The fragmentation of the narrative pattern in Slaughterhouse-Five represents Billy’s inability to integrate the dreadful experience into his consciousness. Billy’s post-traumatic symptom reveals in his constant visit of past events, especially the tragic bombing scene. According to Farrell, trauma sufferers’ symptoms can go from the state of ‘paralysis’ to ‘frantic’ (Post-traumatic