Slaughter House Five: Time Travel Is time travel a mere illusion or can it really exist? In the novel Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut the existence of time travel is portrayed. Vonnegut does not use time travel to change the future or the past, just to visit it. He uses Billy Pilgrim to express his views of time, and it is up to the reader to figure out what this is. He deals with real situations as well as science fiction or fantasy. A real situation is such that of a plane crash and a fantasy would be a visit to another planet, known as Tralfamadore in the novel. His writing is very unique, you can say that Billy Pilgrim