Gah i don't know what the hell I'm suppose to write
God i can't write anymore about slaughterhouse five AHHHHHHH
I can't analyzie any more God i hate analyzing didn't i make enough of my point already
here in case anyone is incredibly bored and has nothing else to do,
want to read my essay
All Time
The year is 1944, 1945, 1964, 1967, 1968, and 1976 as Billy Pilgrim becomes unstuck in time. For many of us we see time as a river. It drifts listlessly from the springs to the ocean. We cannot touch the same waters twice. In the Novel Slaughter House five by Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim discovers the true abounding nature of time. And that time is not a river, but the entire ocean, every water molecule a moment in time existing all at once in the vast blue of eternity.
In 1967 Billy Pilgrim was abducted by aliens called Tralfamadorians. “They had many wonderful things to teach Earthlings, especially about time” [26] Because of this Billy understands how time is structured, and changes his perception and understanding of human events. When Billy first becomes unstuck in time it is 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. Billy and three other soldiers are wandering through the cold snowy battlefield trying not to get caught by German soldiers. Billy leans against a tree in the forest to rest his weary eyes. He goes to many different moments in his first trip through time. It is a long and eventful trip. During which he visits six different moments in his life. I think the most important or noteworthy moments he visited were in 1965 when he is 41 he is visiting his mother at a nursing home called Pine Knoll. And then he goes to 1958 to his son’s little league baseball banquet, and finally when he visits 1961 at a New Year’s party. After that Billy Returns to the battlefield in World War II. I believe those were the most important trips in his first episode of time travel because they occurred after World War II and showed Billy alive and well. Because of becoming unstuck in time, Billy knows he will not die in the war. This is a tremendous relief for him. Billy is generally a passive person by nature, the knowledge of him living on past the war makes him more laid back. When Billy and the other POWs are marched through the streets of Germany Billy is happy and describes the scene as beautiful. Because he does not have to worry about the future or whether or not he will die, Billy is relaxed and unstressed unlike the other POW’s around him. Billy’s foresight greatly lowers his temperament. Even during the firebombing of Dresden Billy is not worried. Billy compares an anti-war book to an anti-glacier book, because a glacier is so big it is impossible to stop it from moving just like a war. The Tralfamordians know that wars will happen and they cannot do anything to stop it, so they simply choose to ignore the war.
Curiously though Billy never tries to change the future. When Billy boards the doomed plane for his optometrist trip, Billy says or does nothing to stop the plane from taking flight. Billy learned from the Tralfamordians that the future will always be as it will be. The Tralfamordians already know how the world, the universe and everything will end. It ends when a new fuel test goes awry. When Billy asks why they simply don’t stop the button from being pressed to prevent the destruction of the universe. The aliens reply that the button will always be pressed. Maybe if they told the person not to press it, someone else would have or it would’ve been pressed by accident. I figure if Billy Pilgrim had told the other passengers that the plane that it was going to crash, most likely no one would listen to him, and he would have been escorted off the plane. The Plane would have crashed, Billy would have lived and the others would have died. So it goes. Anything Billy Pilgrim would have done could do nothing to prevent these inevitable events.
But as the years go by Billy’s calmness turns to depression. He spends days overwhelmed by melancholy. He weeps in his office for no apparent reason. The Tralfamordians teach Billy that free will is merely an illusion to the human psyche. And that only on the planet Earth does the concept of free will arise. Because there is no free will, Billy can do nothing to change anything; he feels that his life and all life is meaningless. Without free will there is no point in trying to do anything, because it will not result in any betterment at all. Now when one conceives that their life is pointless and they have really no purpose in the world, one will feel greatly empty. As if they are nothing more than a fleshy shell. This feeling of remorse plagues Billy for quite some time.
However as Billy grows older and after having survived the plane crash, he becomes inspired to tell others of his experiences. He begins by going on late night radio talk shows and writing letters to the newspapers talking about the true nature of time. Even though Billy cannot prevent bad things from happening in the world, he may be able to help others to understand time, how he and the Tralfamordians see it. So that people can stop dwelling over wars and catastrophes and all of the world’s woes. He even tells people about his own death and how he will die; by being assassinated by Paul Lazzaro during a speech in Chicago. And again Billy does nothing to try and stop it, there is no need. Because he knows that this is how it goes, and after being dead for a while, he will just jump to another moment in his life.
Even if the events in the people’s lives don’t change, if they change their outlook on life. Forget the bad times and relish in the good times. They might have a better quality of life. If we can all just stop fretting over what we didn’t do or what could have happened, we can just sit back, accept and enjoy life as it is. And Listen to the birds singing Poo-tee-weet.
wow my essay looks really short in single space and large margined it's 1021 words
too much essay writting
*cries* D;
CURSE YOU DLYAN NICE!!!!!!!!!!!
....yes my professor's last name is actually, nice
