Reading blog Chapter 4-5

Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughter House-Five

72 - 92
Chapter 4
Something really ironic of this chapter is that Billy knows what is about to happen and does nothing to avoid it. He can’t sleep so he goes down knowing that he is going to be kidnapped by the flying saucer. He waits for it instead of trying to change the events. It’s as if he had an appointment for being kidnapped. I thought it was entertaining and creative how the movie Billy was watching was narrated and the way he reasoned it to be that way. Once again in the story there is reference to Adam and Eve once in the golden boots and then after Billy’s assumption that humanity backwards would go back to Adam and Eve. Why? Are they important to understand the story?
Continuing with the story, the Tralfamadores seemed superior to us since they could communicate telepathically which meant they couldn’t tell lies to each other and that means that their society was free from crime because they couldn’t hide what they had done since everyone would know what they did. I don’t get why did Ronald Weary told everyone that Billy Pilgrim was the one guilty of his death. I also don’t understand why did the Germans told everyone to put on jackets from dead people. Will they kill them after? Or will the Germans trade them for other good to someone else?
I thought when they were taking a shower that they were going to kill them all with toxic gas just as they did with the children and the old men and women that were Jewish. I found it amusing that earth was the only planet to have the concept of “Free will” life is much more interesting when you can do something about it rather that when you just sit there and watch it pass by. For example in a movie called “The Groundhog day” the main character was stuck in one day of his life and no matter what he did next morning he woke up the day before in the same town, with the same people etc. If he had lived the new day just as he lived the day before, it would be a very boring and senseless movie. However, since he each time did something different and tried at the end to enjoy his day then the movie was good and taught the spectator to take part in our lives and do something each day with them. Not just let them pass by.

Pg: 87- 92
I found the books of the Tralfamadores very strange since they lacked all the characteristics that books have no plot, no characters, no cause or effects, no beginning, no end. Like a picture. In the prison they were given numbers and their names were written on a list. In two days their families would know that they were alive, I thought it was a good thing that they had systems like this in war at least it makes it easier to find out your relatives in war if they are dead or not.