Slaughter House-Five chapter 4 "Why me?"

Billy kidnapped by Tralfmadorians? "Why me?" People are always asking why me when something bad happens to them but they don't realize life is not perfect or fair. What Billy says is a very ignorant question in my opinion because everybody has passed through rough times in which everything seems to go wrong. Maybe Billy thinks his life is very bad, but he doesn't realize that there is a lot of suffering and pain all over the world. The book takes an unexpected turn. I thought this book would be only like a recount of war from somebody who hated it. It apparently goes around Billy and war was just a very important part of his life but there are more stories that take place in the book not only war.I wasn't expecting this, why aliens?? This really makes me think that Billy is crazy, I don't know if he is a reliable character and if everything he says really happened. Maybe the war made him crazy and he is in a mental institution. Some people that lived a cruel war like Billy end up in mental institutions because all they saw in war never stops haunting them. I think the writer is trying to take away a little seriousness from the book including aliens in it. He may be trying to include some humor to the book. He started the book, and I thought it would be another book of  wwII but now with this I don't know what will happen. 

Human's free will? When Billy is kidnapped by the Tralfmadorians they talk about the earthlings, they say we think we have the freedom to choose what will happen to us and what we will or will not do. I think it is wrong to say this. To some extent we may choose some aspects of our lives but something just happen, they are unexpected and you just cant choose whether they happen or not. This events are just a part of life and destiny.

slaughter House-Five chapter 3

This chapter makes me think that maybe Billy really is crazy. Maybe the two "times" he lives in are the past maybe he is insane. I think what Billy has is post war syndromes. Many people suffer this. They never accept the fact that the war has already ended and think they should still be aware. Many times this people never get over all the suffering and pain they had to live. Billy leaves me so doubtful. I don't know were he really is, who he really is and if everything he says is happening or happened along time ago.  This kind of books are so intriguing, they make you want to keep reading them and if possible ending them at once. I feel sad for Billy, it is horrible when people remind you of sad events that had happened to you so going back in time and seeing horrible events that happen to you without being able to do something about it must be so bad. He must feel trapped in war. His life will never be the same he will always have to accept what happens to him and try to be strong. I am not really sure but I think this book is like of encountering ones self. Of personal improvement and to live with a clean conciseness. It now gives me a morale. Don't  accept things that you know you wont like, and   try to do things that you know you wont regret.

Slaughter House-Five chapter 2

In chapter two of Slaughter House-five Billy a soldier who is against war travels back in time remebering what his life during the war was. I think he is so affected by war he has begun to become crazy. He travels back and forth in his mind with no control over it. Billy is one of those characters that are very complex. He is a soldier but he doesn't like war he is  against it, at first I believed he was like Forest Gump when he had to travel to Vietnam. He just went there because he had to not because he wanted to. He took war as something he had to do but not that he would choose to go. I think that during the whole book Billy will have many problems and challenges regarding  his lack of acceptation of war. I also connect this chapter with the trilogy of Back To The Future. In this movie Doctor Emmet Brown and his friend Marty Mcfly travel through time always trying to change things for good, but most of the time their positive intentions end up making the problem worst. Even though Billy may want to change some things of his past, it is better to let them go to try to never do those things again in the future. It is better to stop regretting and thinking "what would have been if..."or remembering  because it will never stop haunting you. Memories can be erased by good actions but Billy's problem of time will make him see things very differently than everybody else.

Slaughter House-Five chapter 1

Chapter one of the book starts with a regression into time. The narrator goes back in time to talk about his live in world war II. During the whole chapter he jumps back and forth in time taking about how he lived then, or what he is passing through now. As soon as I read the book had something to do with the second world war I felt very interested. I had just seen a movie about the life of a little kid son of a nazi general being friends with a jewish boy in a concentration camp, and the movie came into my mind. Every time I read about this war I have so much ideas in my mind. I cant believe how people can be so horribly cruel.  I immediately connected this book to that movie and I saw the images in my head. People who lived this war and survived it are marked for the rest of their lives. I see how people now a days have sympathy for the the people that lived in those times and suffered so much. Books like this talking about war atrocities and the effect it has on people help people be better and prevent events like this one to never happening again. I remember when I went to that movie The Boy with the Stripped pajamas, as soon as the movie finished there were like 5 minutes in which there was no sound. People were in shock they did not move, they knew that this once happened but had never seen what it might have been like. I now can see that this book is going to be interesting and just by seeing the title I think it will be sad and tough. Just as all the works that recapture the events of that war.

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