Yesterday I saw that a friend did a quiz in Facebook that was about death. In that quiz they would give you your day of death. I laughed at this because when I was like ten years old I also did this and it said that I was dying in three years and apparently I am not dead yet. Billy had the same event happen to him. The only difference between his day of death of death and mine was that he was sure of it and it was truth while mine was just a lie. Wouldn't it be really strange if you know how you are going to die and when. Billy also knows that when he travels in the plane to the optometry convention it will crash. "He knew it was going to crash, but he didn't want to make a fool of himself by saying so" (Slaughterhouse-five pg 154). I think Vonnegut will have an intention to make Billy know the future and for him to be able to know when things will happen and how. Even though Billy knows this he doesn't have the power to change his future. What Vonnegut might be trying to make us understand is that it will not matter if you know the future of not you can't do anything to change the present. Destiny by definition is: "a predetermined course of events often held to be an irresistible power or agency" (http://www.merriam-webster.com), and it is really an unalterable thing. I really agree with how Vonnegut shows to the readers through Billy that we all have a destiny that we can't evade and even if we try to evade it, it will still find us.
I have still have the doubt of who really is the narrator and how many are there? From the class discussions and my readings I have come to the conclusions that there are two narrators. One of them is Kurt Vonnegut and the other one is Billy. Billy is a friend of Vonnegut and Vonnegut wrote this story through the eyes of him. Billy has also two ways of narrating that are the first person where he just tells what happened to him and the third person that is the Billy who has all the time travels. "Billy was unconscious for two days after that, and he dreamed millions of things, some of them true. The true things were time-travel" (Slaughterhouse-five pg 157). According to this it may mean that all the things that Billy had told us until now were maybe not true except his time travels. I know that this was after the accident of the plane crash but, he also had many accidents and hard things to endure during war. Just when I was beginning to understand a bit of how the story was narrated and how Vonnegut dealt with the narrators and time travels they say that this might be different. I think this Vonnegut did this on purpose to keep us guessing. When he was getting us to understand more how this book was he confuses us again because this book is meant to be confusion. Vonnegut is very good at changing the story with just a time travel or with an event. It is a very good way to write a book because it keeps you interested and always trying to guess what will come next. I am really interested to know what will happen next and after all this confusion about how this novel is written I do not know how I am going to react to a normal novel anymore.
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