begged for her hand in marriage. This demonstrates that he doesnt love her and he actually does not want to be with her, but he is stuck in amber. Billy cannot change the fate of their marriage to one another. Another way that he is stuck is the fact that he knows the exact timing of his own death, yet he does nothing to try to prevent it. Billy knows that if he struggles to get away it will do him no good. He could not have changed it. Pilgrim discusses wars on Earth with the Tralfamadorians. They claim that our notions to try to prevent wars on Earth are ridiculous. There will always be wars and people are designed that way. We know that wars are bad and we would like to stop them, but we are stuck in amber.Billy Pilgrims lapses in time give the reader a cyclical feeling. He needs to go back and forth throughout his lifetime not only to understand himself, but also to endure himself, to become his history (Lundquist 79). Cycles of death and renewal of life continue throughout the story. So it goes, a line found often in the book, helps to aid in the continuation of the novel. Billy learned this line from the Tralfamadorians. The term is used to control the tone and the readers response (Klinkowitz 67). Each time a death occurs, the line so it goes is there to help us accept the death, the fact that we can do nothing about it, and move onto renewal and re-entry into the living world. Billy learned this from the Tralfamadorians. They saw the world as a portrait that has been laid out and finished with all experiences present all at once. All time is all time. It does not change, they tell him (Vonnegut 211). They believed that death is predestined and one cannot avoid the outcome. Billy learned to accept his life experiences from the Tralfamadorians just as Vonnegut has come to see death in a whole new light. I, Billy Pilgrimwill die, have died, and will always die on February 13th, 1976 (Vonnegut 141). Pilgrim die...
