Wow! Would people not love to go back in time and change that little mistake they did in the past? The concept of changing the past to fix the future reminds me of the movie: Source Code. The main character tries so hard to change the future of two trains exploding. He does not want all the people in the trains to die. This situation is similar to Billy Pilgirm's problem. Vonnegut writes, "Billy Pilgrim got onto a chartered airplane in Ilium twenty-five years after that. He knew it was going to crash, but he didn't want to make a fool of himself by saying so" (154). If I could go back in time, then I would change an accident so that it would not occur. Why could Billy Pilgrim not change the incident of the plane? Billy Pilgrim could have avoided buying the plane in the first place. There were many incidents in Billy Pilgrim's life that he could have changed when he traveled back in time, but he did not. He is a weak character and is too embarrassed to say that the plane will crash.
I really like your comparision and find it to relate well. Vonnegut made Billy Pilgrim stand as a symbol as to why fate cannot be changed. I think that he was trying to explain that if we could go back in time, we should not tamper with events that have already happened because it could drastically alter our fate. Instead we must accept it and learn to see the good out of everything that happens.
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