Is Destiny Written?

"He always pressed it, and he always will. We always let him and we always will let him. The moment is structured that way." (117) One of the main motifs in the book, I have seen, is destiny. The Tralfamadorians know when everything is going to happen they know exactly what will happen and they do nothing to change it. Humans' idea of free will actually says that you can write your own future that you decide what to do and what no to do. According to the tralfamadorians and the 4th dimension it is all written, everything that happens was supposed to happen you cant change or overwrite it. Your life since the moment you are born already takes a path and there is no way you can stray from it. Billy Pilgrim has the possibility of going to any part if his life and knowing what is going to happen and he does not try to change it because he knows anything he tries to do is what is supposed to do. This is a very complex level of thoughts, it is incredible to believe that anything you do is because was written that way. We wont discover if this is or isn't true but maybe it is and it means we are really machines as the tralfamadorians say.  They know how the Universe will end and when will this happen and they don't try to stop it as Billy asks because it is meant to end that time that way.

"That was I. That was me. That was the author of this book."(125) A question I thought I wouldn't be able to answer until the end of the book was if Kurt Vonnegut would ever appear in the book, was answered in this chapter.  I knew for sure that Billy Pilgrim was not Vonnegut but I knew in some point he was going to mention himself in the story. In this chapter Billy meet Vonnegut in the latrine were all americans were sick and had excreted in buckets all they ate that night. Vonnegut says to Billy he had excreted everything except his brains and then he said he did. Billy is a character Vonnegut invented that passes to many of the adventures Vonnegut passed in war and sees them much like he did and in this chapter Vonnegut wants to show that Billy lived some things he did, but that they are not the same person.