“A Trafamadorian sees all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is time it does not change. It does not lend its self to warning or explanation. It simply is. Take it moment by moment.” (86)

Vonnegut wrote the book Slaughterhouse-Five as if it was written for a Trafamadorian. The importance is not put on the middle or the end but in “The depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.” (88) Vonnegut believes that there is no way to avoid war, death, and destruction; however, the importance is placed on

“When a Trafamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. (27)”

If you knew the future, would you do anything about it? Trafamadorians know the future. They know when wars come or when horrible things occur before they happen. However, they choose to look away, look only at the good. They accept all the bad things that happen. When Billy talks to some Trafamadorian tourists during his captivity about the lives of the Trafamadorians, they exchange questions about their lives on their relative planets.

Trafamadorians are very passive beings. They are willing to “let live” and take no action. They ignore their problems. Ignoring their problems does nothing, and is counterproductive. The power that the Trafamadorians have to see the future has the possibility to create a perfect world. They are content, however, with just letting problems occur and looking away. If the thousands of innocent civilians in Dresden knew their future that, they were going to be bombed; would they have just looked away from the problem and let it happen to them? If the millions of Jews knew that they were going to be persecuted by the Nazis, would they have continued to live in Western Europe? If it was know that AIDS started in Africa and if it was know how to protect oneself from the disease, would millions still of died? Of course not. However, sometimes humans do act like Trafamadorians. It is known that wars will be started in the future however; humans continue to look away from the probl

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