"If I'd known I was fighting a chicken, I wouldn't have fought so hard."
Vonnegut added flare to his writing with implied metaphors. While Billy was in the hospital at the prison camp, Paul Lazzaro was injured in a fight with an Englishmen. Paul started the fight when he attempted to steal cigarettes. The Englishmen said,"If I'd know I was fighting a chicken, I wouldn't have fought so hard," because Lazzaro was malnourished, fairly thin, and weak. Many of the American prisoners fit the term "chicken" because of the harsh war. Vonnegut created the idea of a scrawny and aggressive prisoner by using chicken to describe his physical appearance.
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