Friday, May 21, 2010
Question 3
The significance of telling the story out of order is that it is showing how that time doesn’t matter and how Billy Pilgrim is just trapped in a circle of time. It shows that there is no such thing as time and time has no point. Why do we even believe in time, what is the point? You will always go to work, and school at a curtain time, your future won’t change because you try and change time, your past, present, and future will always be the same no matter what. Kurt Vonnegut doesn’t believe in the concept of time, he feels that every minute that goes by is like an hour of his life passing by, into time he feels that time was a human creation that we have to follow. “There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said and calendars.” Kurt Vonnegut says “so it goes” in the book after someone has died, he can’t do anything about it, it has happened and he cant change time, it is in the past.
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him not believing in time and stuff like that is kinda the same about fate vs freewill. how he has no freewill because he believes that everything happens for a reason and he cant change it
I dont agree with this, because i dont think that Vonnegut wrote the novel to show that time does not exist. I think that he wrote it out of order because he didnt want there to be a climax, or a hero in an anti war novel. He wanted the message to come across as jumbled, just like war. Therefore I think he used the structure to dissuade people from supporting war, and to show how confusing it all is.
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