Destiny Is Written.

People often undergo situations in life that later marks them to what they may become in the future or what may become of their life. As I said in my last blog wars are events that may leave an impact on the people that go through them. Through war, Billy Pilgrim encounters indignity through the deaths he is close to suffer, and his tedious experience in the war floor.This indignity leads him to lose interest in life due to his inability to find what he is really looking for, causing him too look for that missing aspect in his past and future memories. “Billy wouldn’t do anything to save himself. Billy wanted to quit. ” (Vonnegut,34). This sense of apathy towards life is the cause of the constant recurrence of his memory flashbacks. Finding in them what he can not find in his life. He recurs to the past where he is more alive, where in the present he is living dead.

According to Billy “they can see how permanent all the moments are and they can look at any moments that interest them.” (Vonnegut.27) meanings they are the Tralfarmadorians and Billy shares there point of viewing at the world because he too can recur to any moment when he wants. I can infer that Billy belives that because in some way he is not content with his life at this moment and regrets some of the things that occurred to him. Even though moments are eternal, and once they're gone, are gone forever, Billy's fate in the real life won't be affected by the experiences lived in these memories. Because destiny is one thing that can't be changed: the bird's song at the end of the war is the destiny of the book, and therefore can't be otherwise.

In the movie The Butterfly Effect Evan, with the use of his diaries tries to change his destiny by going back into his memories. What he wants all the time is to be with the girl he loves but every time he manages to be with her something bad happens at the same time. This is because it is his destiny not to be with her and therefore he can’t change it. So at the end he realizes that the only way that his life is going to be at peace is if he is not with her. In Slaughter House-Five no matter how harsh or beautiful the war is the books destiny is already written. It will end with the birds singing.