The Tralfamadorian philosophy also means that no one can ever be blamed for their actions. All those moments can be visited in any order because time does not flow linearly as everyone thinks it does.
They teach him that nothing really dies, it just exists in a state of death in one moment in time but exists as alive in other moments.
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They make contact with Billy and teach him how to view the universe as a series of events that are always occurring. You can take the Tralfamadorians at face value. Therein lies the difficulty of this novel. We can buy that, but what about the damn aliens? Did they happen, too? Maybe a guy really was executed on the spot as a looter when he picked up a teapot he found in the ruins, and a guy who collected ears as trophies went free. Some of Vonnegut's characters may have been based on real people. People survived and combed through the rubble of their homes and told their stories. The first line of the book says, “All this happened, more or less.” Did Billy Pilgrim really get kidnapped by aliens and put into a zoo and forced to mate with a porn star? That happened? Okay, the bombing of Dresden, a city with no strategic or military worth, did actually take place, and Vonnegut was indeed held there as a prisoner of war during the attack. What? If the author is also a character, then either the author is fictional, or the story is true. Then somewhere in the middle of the story, which skips backwards and forwards through the life of its protagonist Billy Pilgrim, Vonnegut mentions that one of the soldiers held captive with Billy is in fact him, Vonnegut, the author of the book. The opening chapter actually serves as an introduction to how the book came to be written, why it took Vonnegut so long to write about his experiences in War World II, and why he ultimately didn't believe his little anti-war book would have any impact on the world. It's the sort of line blurring he would take to extremes later with Breakfast of Champions, but here, because it is so off-handed, I was jolted from the page and had to stare off into the distance to stabilize myself. First off, Vonnegut himself appears in the novel as both the author and as a character. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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