Chapter Five: Dramatic Irony

Chapter 5 has an excellent example of dramatic irony. A German guard in the Dresden prisoner of war camp knocks down an American prisoner for seemingly no reason at all. The man was perplexed by the guard's action, so he asks "Why me?" The guard responds with a stereotypical German accent "Vy you? Vy anybody?"

If you remember in chapter four, Billy asks his Tralfamadorian captors why he was being captured.This shows dramatic irony because the reader knows that the responses were the same (minus the accent), and the characters do not.