Billy Pilgrim is now a victim to a plane crash. “He knew he was going to crash,” (Chapter 7) but he did nothing to prevent it. It says this, “but he didn't want to make a fool of himself by saying so.”(Chapter 7) Why would someone who is about to suffer a plane crash and knows it not react to it? If I were about to plane crash I would definitely do something, no matter if I made a fool of myself. I prefer to live than to make a fool of myself. A question we could ask ourselves is if Billy knew he would survive. If he did it would make his reaction a little more understandable, but we don’t know he did.
What I believe made him do this was the information given to him by the Tralfamadorians. “Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine.”(Chapter 7)If he had this in his head it would explain why he didn’t react. “We are machines, why bother?” That’s maybe a typical reaction of a human being if he were told he is a machine, besides of course saying, “you are nuts, I’m not a machine.” When the plane finally crashes he survives, so he didn’t pay for not reacting against the the plane crash.
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