Is everything that someone does chosen by that person or does a greater being choose it and the individual does not see it that way? In Kurt Vonnegut 's novels he shows these things in a way that wouldn’t be expected. Kurt Vonnegut uses his satirical style of writing to show predestination and the importance of sight.
To show predestination in his novels, he normally uses a symbolic figure that makes it obvious, for example in Slaughterhouse five the book uses a symbolic like creature that shows the main character that free will isn’t real. “All time is all time, It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is” (Vonnegut, 41). In this the creature who is portrayed as an alien, in this explains to the main
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Vonnegut’s satirical writing style is very blunt and to the point even to where he says what he means in a very way that makes people just think “wow it’s true”. “The sea pirates were white. The people who were already on the continent when the pirates arrived were copper-colored. When slavery was introduced onto the continent, the slaves were black. Color was everything” (Vonnegut, 20). Vonnegut very blatantly say how the nation wasn’t founded by just one color but it was from many different races. When trying to get his point across to the reader, he says it very blatantly so it’s easy to understand but at the same time the reader is sitting there in wow wondering why he would say something like this. In Slaughterhouse-five Vonnegut shows the importance of sight in multiple ways not only that Billy works with eyes in the first place but that he understands how the tralfamadorians see time in the fourth dimension.”The creatures were friendly, and they could see in four dimensions” (Vonnegut, 15). Vonnegut explains in this that the tralfamadorians are able to see time all in one time and that events happen at one time but keep repeating themselves. He doesn’t only mention this in Slaughterhouse-five but in most of his