#2

Every day you are faced with decisions. What clothes you are going to wear, what you’re going to do or what you’re going to eat it’s your free will to choose. However your decisions will affect your fate. According to the Tralfamadorians, only on Earth is there talk of free will, since they think humans; mistakenly think of time as a linear progression. The Tralfamadorians explain to Billy that there is no such thing as free will and that Earthlings only believe there is free will because they cannot view time as the fourth dimension. Throughout Billy's life he encounters many things that test his free will. When Billy is a child, his father lets him drowned in the deep end of a pool in order to teach him how to swim. However against his free will to stay there, he is rescued. Also, Billy is drafted into the war against his will. When Billy time travels and sees his own death, he chooses not to mess with it. He knows he’s going to die, and he doesn’t want to change fate. This is much like Kurt Vonnegut, because he dose not believe in the concept of time, and thinks everything happens for a reason. Kurt Vonnegut also says that there is no such thing as free will. It does not exist because we choose what we want, and that is basically fate.