Any answers?

Okay, so I finished the book. What can I say? I thought that when I would finish the book I would have millions and millions of answers for all of my questions that I had laid out in my previous one? Like is Billy crazy? Is Vonnegut and Billy the same person? Are the Trafalmadorians real or is it just the imagination of Billy? Is there a true present? Well so many questions and so little answers.

I was expecting to find a whole conclusion when I finished the book, but while I was reading I would count the pages and start to find more things that would confuse me. At the ending chapters Vonnegut would talk to us mainly about Dresden, but I reached a part at the ending of  Chapter 8 which made me think harder a question. Is Billy and Vonnegut the same person? I know we have discussed it in class but I couldn´t seem to stop asking myself this. This passage was about Kilgore Trout talking to Maggie White about his books. He would say "Writing is like advertising. You have to tell the truth in advertising or you get in trouble." (171)  "I put everything that happens to me in books." (172) When I read this it got me thinking. Is this maybe a foreshadow that Vonnegut is putting towards us? Is it maybe Vonnegut saying "Hey Billy is me! Im telling you my story!"

Kilgore Trout would write about aliens, or even also about a time machine which I related it to Billy´s time travel. But anyway, if he told Maggie that everything he wrote was true, but at the same time is making things up, is it maybe the technique that Vonnegut is using in this book? He did go to World War II, was present in the bombing, I don´t know if Im crazy but Billy and Vonnegut may be the same person. Vonnegut just gave it a fun twist as Trout would give to his stories. Meaning that the Trafalmadorians aren´t real, Billy never time traveled, he was just a little nuts or just a fun character Vonnegut decided to come up with.

I may be wrong, and when you read this blog you might think that I am crazy, but it was pretty hard finding a conclusion about the book but Im not going to lie I had fun trying to find it. This book is definitely unique, in the sense that I haven´t read anything like it. How Vonnegut puts so many subjects into one like war, aliens, love, even cinderella and at the end of the day they all relate its pretty impressive! The technique that he uses, which I found it to be like one of the Trafalmadorian ideology "there is no present, no future, no past"is extremely interesting. There would be no timeline in the book, you would suddenly be at war with Billy and in a second you are off to where he was a little boy at the YMCA. It´s funny, how everything is in disorder and you are jumping from one moment to the next and somehow you don't get lost. Even though the moments are not related to each other, or aren´t even in the same time at the end they start making sense. This isn´t a book that everything is laid out in front of you. You have to analyze details, and take it with patience. Because if you don´t it´s probable that at the end you will not understand a thing.


This is definitely a book that is on my top list. I have never read something like it and even though some things may seem ridiculous I think I learned some things. Put a little of the Trafalmadorian ideology in me, like to enjoy every moment as it is happening, to stop thinking about the future and enjoy the present. This is a book one MUST read. Even though I finished reading this novel,  I have more questions than I did before.