Slaughterhouse Five- parallelism

"He got a few paragraphs into it, and then he realized that he had read it before- years ago, in the veterans' hospital.  It was about an Earthling man and woman who were kidnapped by extra-terrestrials." PAGE 201

This quote provides parallelism between the plot of the book and one of the destinations of Billy's time traveling experience.  Billy travels to a planet after being kidnapped by the extra-terrestrials.  He claims all of this happened, but he has no proof.  There is a parallel scenario between the one in the book and the adventure of Billy.  In the book, and in Billy's adventure, the Earthling is taken to another planet and placed in a zoo for observation.  In both scenarios, the Earthlings are watched carefully by the native inhabitants.  This parallelism allowed me to realize that Billy might not have gone to Tralfamadore.  He might have just thought he did because of what he read.  He might have envisioned or imagined the experience rather than living it.  He did not think he read the book before, but then remembers he did.  I think that he created the time travel illusion and Tralfamadore from this book.

Parallelism- As You Like It

"I will help you, if I can: I would love you if I could. To-morrow meet me all togther. I will marry you, if ever I marry woman, and I'll be married to-morrow: I will satisfy you, if ever I satisfied man, and you shall be married to-morrow: I will content you, if what pleases you contents you, and you shall be married to-morrow." (V, ii, 71)

Rosalind uses parallelism in this scene. She is trying to satisfy everyone. Everyone seems to be in love with the wrong person at this point. Orlando loves Rosalind and is pretending to be in love with the fake man Ganymede. Phebe falls for Ganymede but Silvius is in love with Phebe. With her plan, Rosalind attempts to make sure everyone's love works out. The use of parallelism in this case with the repetition of "I will... if" shows that she is speaking to everyone equally. The use of parallelism is effective because all the scenarios deal with the same subject. The use of parallelism connects all of her efforts. The repeated sentence structure effectively demontrates the equality of the situations and that Rosalind cares about all of them equally.