Sunday, 22 February 2009

All Time is All Time

"All time is all time. It does not change...It simply is".
Once again, like in the "So it goes" phrase, the Tralfamadorians make another statement that is basically saying to just live, instead of thinking that once moments have passed they are gone forever. Once again, they explain Billy Pilgrim's "Let it be" attitude. In this chapter we see again how after some tragic events, like the hobo's death, the author says "So it goes." This however, doesn't mean that Billy Pilgrim is like that, since the book is written in third person, but the author never writes about Pilgrim's emotions, he just writes about what happens and moves on. I am starting to think that after the Tralfamadorian kidnapping, Pilgrim's attitude towards life changes, and that even the events that happened before the kidnapping were written after it, because the entire second novel (meaning the book after chapter one) is written with the apparently careless attitude. The Tralfamadorians are definetely very important to Pilgrim's life.

1 comment:

  1. I see you're reading carefully, but I need you to go further with your analysis of each chapter. Why are the Tramalfadorians imporant? What does their world imply about ours?

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