Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Reading Blog Pg 136-152

I felt hate for Lazzaro for being so mean to that dog. He is repulsive, he likes vengance he is pure evil. It`s sad that Billy Pilgrim will die because of Lazzaro. I wish Lazzaro was killed in Dresden or by someone else before he could send to kill Billy Pilgrim. I hate that Billy doesn`t do anything to stop his death knowing how it goes. He should ask the policeman to stay with him, protect him and have Lazzaro sent to prison. I don`t understand, after Billy`s death he just goes back to memories of his life for eternity. Nothing happens with his soul or whatever it is that travels from time to time? Does it become stuck in the time frame of his life moving eternaly?

I think that Billy should tell everybody to leave Dresden before 30 days so that no one dies. I don`t get why he is unwilling to save the lifes of others or even to try to save them. Billy is not living his life, he doesnt pursue happiness, he just let things be as they are. In chapter 3 in page 60 Billy Pilgrim had a quote at the entrance of his office which said"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference." Billy Pilgrim is either a coward or an ignorant. It is annoying that he knows everything and plans to do nothing about it regardless of what is at stake.
How strong is fate over our will?
In page 151 it says "It was Fate, of course, which had constumed him- Fate, and a feeble will to survive." Why is fate capitalized? Is Fate like a god or something that gets to do whatever it wants regardless of "free will". This remembers me again of the Butterfly Effect movie, since the main character learned that his "fate" was not to be with the girl he was in love with since a boy. This was because regardless what he did to be with her, everything always ended up wrong. Thus he decided just to resign to his attempts of being with her because he knew that wasnt meant to be.
I think Billy knows something that we, readers, don`t there must be a reason to explain his indifference and his serenity towards the future, the past and the present. There must be a terrible consequence if he tries to change the events in time. I also want to know if Billy escaped from Dresden before the bomb and that is how he got saved. Did he take anyone with him? Is he planning to change the outcome of his life by changing something important that happened in Dresden? Why is the book named Slaughter House- Five? What happens in the place they work that makes that place so important to be the book´s title?

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