In the second chapter Vonnegut begins the story introducing us to Billy. He takes us through his life fairly quickly as he just wants to give us the big picture to further present how this character dosen't perceive time as we do. He is able to go to any moment of his life, even his death and birth. At one point in his life, his daughter's wedding, he was abducted by the Tralfamadores and taken for exhibition to their faraway planet. There he gathers a huge amount of knowledge regarding time, how nothing is linear and how events are plainly laid on a table, not one after the other as we see them. Then Billy goes to the point in his life were he first experienced this phenomenon, even before meeting the "aliens". This reminded me a lot of "Inception". It looked like Billy was experiencing a dream on another dream, the only difference was he could travel to any moment in his life.
What really captivated my attention was how Vonnegut exposed his view on life and the afterlife. Billy talked about how the Tralfamadores had 4D sight, they could look at any point in there life and saw death only as a bad part of a person's life. They didn't see it as the end, it was only a picture in whole photo album. This is something Vonnegut made very clear all throughout stating, "So it goes" after a death was discussed (There were a lot of deaths in this chapter) taking a portion of the tragedy away. I could really relate to this as I too see death as only the continuation of life, not the end as many others see it. Its really all part of the circle, the circle of life.
Alejandro,
ReplyDeleteI liked your blog post. Your description on the book's plot was quite accurate, detail and brief reference was great. The summary was great but I feel you are not including your opinion as much. Great writing: concise and few wordiness