Monday, May 24, 2010
#3: the significance
I think the significance of telling the story out of order is to show how crazy and out of order Billy Pilgrims life is. In the story Billy goes back in time a lot and when he does go back in time it isn't in order, that is another reason why the story is written out of order. KV chose this way of writing this story because that's the way he sees his life and the way other people see it. KV says so it goes after someone dies, he says this because Billy doesn't believe in time, so when someone dies they just die, there is no certain time they die at.
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I feel like you repeat yourself alot but other than that, me gusta
I agree with this. Billy's life has no order and therefore why should the book have order? To Billy, time is just numbers and doesn't matter. In the novel, time doesn't matter and neither does the order of events. Everything happens and we can't change it, which is why he says "so it goes" after deaths. The book's lack of order emphasizes the lack of order in Billy's life.
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