Slaughter House Five pg 154-181

I thought once again that it was ridiculous that Billy Pilgrim didn't do anything to stop all the optometrists traveling with him from dying. I wouldn't mind if made a "fool" of my self if I could prevent my workmates from dying. Billy also knew that because of his accident his wife was going to die and he still didn't do anything about that. He never really explains why things shouldn't be changed.

I found an explanation to that and although I don't think Vonnegut knew about it when he wrote the book. There is an article at bbc that talks about time traveling based on the quantum theory. "Quantum behaviour is governed by probabilities. Before something has actually been observed, there are a number of possibilities regarding its state. But once its state has been measured those possibilities shrink to one - uncertainty is eliminated. " If Billy knows that his wife and collegues are supposed to die in the future he can't do anything about it because it will eliminate that Billy from the future so there won't be any Billy in the present because the present Billy is the future Billy.

I also found interesting that now he is calling the human beings machines. It is visible the change from "His wife, Valencia, was outside..."(154) to "Outside the plane, the machine named Valencia..."(154) he still calls her coldly a machine even though she will die and soon. Thinking twice about this, he doesn't feel sorry for her death because he knows that he will see her again in the past to which he can go back to.

It was nice that Billy met Kilgore Trout and that they became friends. I didn't get the importance of the son being in the bathroom playing with a pink guitar. Also I thought it was akward that Billy had been so sensible to the song "The Febs" sang for him and his wife and specially the connection that made him feel sad. It was good that after the explosion in Dresden the German owners of the small hostage recieved them.