Believes

Through out the book the author has countless times addressed the Tralfamadorian model for life. How one most never fight or try to control fate, because it is way out of our reach.  The author gives various example were the Tralfamadorian simply accept fate with out resentment or angry, even if the destiny means the end of the universe.  Vonnegut did this to show the Earthlings they can’t control everything and that things simply are.

One the other hand, Vonnegut had never actually talked about any Earthling using the Tralfamadorian model to accept death. The first Earthling that used this model was, Billy Pilgrim.  Many years after the war, Billy remembered the promise that Lazzaro made to him, about killing him, to honor his friend whom Billy had killed. It was time for Lazzaro to keep his promise and it was time for Billy to accept it. He had  finished his sermon in a Basketball Park in Chicago and sent his bodyguards home, to their wife and children as he waited for his destiny.

“I, Billy Pilgrim, the tape begins, will die, have died and always will die on February thirteen, 1976.” (Vonnegut 141). When it was time for Billy to die he was at peace with himself. He learned the power of fate and knew that tomorrow he would be died, but he would eventually live again.