Moments We Must Enjoy

While reading the fifth chapter of Slaughterhouse Five I found it very interesting how the Tralfamadorians begin to teach or at least explain Billy what they read. “There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects.” (Chapter 5) Basically what I understand is that they really just want to see moment, just an instant, and a particularly small picture drawn by the writer. “What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.'”(Chapter 5) They are actually reading to feel something, because “many marvelous moments” put together at once generate a feeling. Also a key way to find out what they mean is not just a moment but a feeling is that there is “no beginning, no middle, no end” so basically they already had it, still have it, and will always have it. Billy would not understand the books of the Tralfamadorians not only because of how their written but also because of its deep meaning. In other words the book must have a moral for him or any human to understand. This would be because Tralfamadorians enjoy the plain moments when they feel life, and live it by those precious moments, the ones drawn in their books. While Billy is searching to learn something, or reach a goal.