Response [Recurring Theme..By: Parvathy]

I agree with Parvathy that the text is really hard to understand as a first time reader, as I have already mentioned before. As Parvathy has mentioned, there is a framed prayer on the wall of his office that packs all the themes in the novel, which states:

GOD GRANT ME 

THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT

THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE,

COURAGE

TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN,

AND WISDOM ALWAYS

TO TELL THE 

DIFFERENCE. 

In my view, what Vonnegut is trying to express through this poem, is that Billy is special in a way that he cannot do anything but help to do what he is going through and to give the idea that he is different and perceives the world in a completley different manner and wants them to understand that there is such a thing as travelling through time,Tralfamadore and the Tralfamadorians. And, yes I agree with Parvathy we have to accept the way things just are. As the Tralfamadorians say it, "the moment is structured that way".


We all learn from somethine we did wrong in the past and then we try to avoid the same mistake and try to better. Paravthy mentioned that when Billy went to war he was immature and unequipped but he still survived and grew off of that life changing experience. An example that I am going to share is you bake some cookies, you got everything prepared but as a youngster, especially when mamma is out of the country and your father and grandpa tell you that Baking Soda and Magic Baking Powder is the same thing, and you trust them, all that hard work of yours is gone down the drain because those cookies are going to come out flat and hard. So, in the end, I learned two things: 1. Don't trust a father that doesn't cook
                                2. Don't give up becuase you alway's learn
                                    from your mistakes

By: Puja