!!!QUESTION 3!!!

In Slaughterhouse Five the structure of the story is out of order primarly to show how time doesn't matter. Kurt Vonnegut chose this structure because he beleives time is pointless. He lives his life not depending on time. He is Billy Pilgrim in the book, and Billy also doesn't follow time. Time should not dictate when we do things, they should just happen. That is how Billy's life was, and he couldn't control it. His whole life was planned out, he knew what he was going to do, and he had no option of when to do it. He only went through the motions already knowing the outcome. The phrase "so it goes" was said after every death in the book. This relates to the concept of time because death is unaviodable, and is supposed to happen without any control. Most people can't control their death. It just is. Billy believed that after you died, you were still alive. You were still living in the past, and were constantly reliving memories. You never really died, you just stopped making new memories, and focused on the old ones. The fact that people base their lives on time, doesn't make sense to him. Everything will happen the way it is supposed to, and people should just go through the motions, not caring what section of time they are in. The structure of this book is cut into many sections to portray that everything happens, and at the time it might not make sense because settings are changing so often, but in the end it will all come together and finally make sense.