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Chapter 4 Analysis
The first thing that I noticed about this chapter is that it is all over the place, or all over the "time" if you will. It kept jumping back and forth between the war, and Billy being on the Tralfamadorian ship. It sort of created a feeling that time is unimportant, like everything that did happen, or will happen, is already happening. This relates to the way the Tralfamadorians see the world, since they can see all moments in time, at once. An example of this is when Vonnegut describes a character in the prison camp with Billy. It is said that he has the healthiest body out of all the prisoners, but then he says that "[the man]'s son would survive the war. [the man] wouldn't. That good body of his would be filled with holes by a firing squad in Dresden in sixty-eight days. So it goes."
It seems the themes in this book are free will, and fate. The Tralfamadorians see everything about the universe, just as it is, just as it is fated to be. They said to Billy that Earth is the only planet they have encountered where the inhabitants believe in free will. This makes me think that this is because humans don't possess the power to see in all times, thus making them believe they can control and change what happens in the future. This, in a way, is ignorance, which is also said to be bliss.
Chapter 3 Analysis
The events that occurred in the rest of this chapter were not too exciting, I must admit. Billy and Roland were just packed into separate shipping crates to be shipped off somewhere. There were no more flashbacks or flashforwards in this chapter, but the real exciting part came at the very end, in the last sentence. It said "[Billy] fell asleep, and he traveled in time to 1967 again-to the night he was kidnapped by a flying saucer from Tralfamadore.
I am very interested in reading the next chapter, all because of that one sentence. I am hoping that Vonnegut will take the story into the world of the aliens, or at least further describe what its like for them to see in the fourth dimension. I have a feeling that this is all going to come back around to relate to the theme of the story, about the perception of life.
Chapter 2 Analysis
Chapter 2 introduced us to Billy Pilgrim, an interesting man, as stated in the previous post, and began the story of his time in the war. He was behind enemy lines in German territory accompanied by an 18 year old, heavyset soldier named Roland Weary. Billy was 21 at this time, and nowhere near as good a soldier as Weary. At the end of this chapter they both were caught by German soldiers.
As predicted, this chapter marked the start of the actual story in the book, and introduced conflict: Billy and Roland are prisoners of war. Billy seems to have uncontrollable time travels a lot, where he lives out a random time in his life. This causes the story to take unexpected and random changes, and I wonder what the purpose of this is. Will it support the potential theme stated in the previous blog? Or is it just random? As a student in AP Literature, I know that nothing that is ever written in a book is ever completely random and without meaning, especially not in a book as popular as this, so I'm going to guess it has something to do with the theme.
Chapter 1 Analysis
This was a very strange chapter to me. It's difficult for me to really understand the purpose of it. After looking at the beginning of the next chapter, where it seems the actual story begins, I feel like the entire first chapter could have been omitted. At the end of the first chapter, Vonnegut states that "This [book] is a failure." and that the next one he writes is going to be more fun. This makes me question why this book is one of his most famous ones, even though he thinks it is a failure.
Overall the first chapter was pretty dull, and difficult for me to understand, though I'm sure there was lots of symbolism in it. I am hoping the symbols become more clear, and the book is a little more eventful in the chapters to come.
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