Slaughterhouse-five Ch2: How We Live After Life Changing Events

I once met two people that were not exactly alike but were very similar in aspects like thoughts and actions. These two people never met each other but it is kind of one person that really reminds you of another person. I think the same thing can be said about Billy and Weary. Billy is discriminated because he is different. He says he was captured by Tralfamadorians and writes about his experiences in the planet of Tralfamadore. "The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."(Slaughterhouse-five pg 26) This is very much true if you are referring to the mental level of life. You will always remain in the minds of the people that really cared about you even after you are dead. This reminds me very much of the book Gilgamesh when he was talking with Enkidu asking him to describe how is the afterlife. He describes that the people who have less people that mourn for them are the ones that have to suffer the most. I see that when a person remembers you it means that you changed his life in some way. Since Kurt Vonnegut plays so much with time in this novel he might be trying to say that each time he introduces a new character to the book he will have a memory or a connection with the character before. Billy and Weary have a trait that they share. Billy was the only one survivor of a plane accident and his daughter asked him: "Why is it you never mention this before the airplane crash?"(Slaughterhouse-five pg 30)She was referring to the thinking about the aliens. Weary experienced rejection during his childhood and was also the sole survivor of a tank attack to his squad. I think that after some horrible accidents like is the one of the plane, Weary's childhood or the tank bombing there is a change in the person. The change that we see after the crash is that Billy starts to talk and say that he can communicate with aliens. The change we can see in Weary is that he becomes a torture fanatic that is always searching for the way to make a person suffer the most before dying. Both of this changes had been for bad or crazy because just imagine you being the one chosen by destiny to survive an accident might affect your mind a bit. I once saw the beginning of a movie that was called Final Destination. What happened here is that a guy has a vision that he sees that the plane is going to blow up. He goes out of the plane with his close friends and the plane ends up exploding. This shows that sometimes you can't evade fate and if you are the chosen one to be the sole survivor you have to live with it.