SH5 also has an inside tiltle page,
Slaughter House Five
The Children's Crusade
A Duty Dance With Death
I like the tralfamadorian description how humans see the world
Human vision is something so narrow and restricted...to
convey to themselves what it must be like they have to
imagine a creature with a metal sphere around his head who
looks down a long, thin pipe seeing only a tiny speck at
the end. He cannot turn his head around and he is strapped
to a flatcar on rails which goes in one direction. The is looking at the Rocky Mountains through that pipe. What they can see of it is what we see of time
(Vonnegut).
The prayer
lord give the the courage to change the things that i can
The serenity to accept what i can not change
And the wisdom to know the difference
According to the tralfamadorians the things we can not change are the past, present, and future.
I have read that book too many times.
Tralfamadorianism is the philosophy held by Billy’s alien friends, which teaches that each moment in time is pre-structured with no purpose, but is totally random. But, despite the randomness of the moment, it cannot be changed because it simply exists the way it is. On the other hand, Christianity teaches that God is in sovereign control, and He brings each action to pass and has planned out all of time. While these may not look so different, Vonnegut makes it clear that he does not agree with Christianity. By giving the Tralfamadorians a position of superiority over humans, Vonnegut uses them to criticize society. Billy relates once that “On Tralfamadore, there isn’t much interest in Jesus Christ” (Vonnegut Slaughterhouse 210). Rather, the Tralfamadorians consider Darwin the most innovative and influential human. To further tarnish the image of Christianity, Pilgrim reads a sci-fi novel in which there is a parody of the Gospel of Christ. Instead of Jesus being the Son of God, He is a bum, a “nobody.” Once He is crucified, God’s voice booms down from heaven and says “I am adopting this bum, this nobody as My Son,” therefore everyone is required to treat Jesus and all other bums with kindness and respect (Novels 276).
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