Slaughterhouse 5 group 06 by mrshollis https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk Slaughterhouse 5 en-us 2019-02-04 00:47:31 UTC 2025-11-24 16:58:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Questions to consider as you read https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/327276574 why is Vonnegut focused on an alternate universe ( separate from earth)?

What are billy's triggers?

When is the quote "so it goes" always mentioned?

why is optometry important?

what are similarities between his experiences on earth, and his experiences on Tralfamadore?

]]> 2019-02-04 13:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/327276574 themes chollisgagnon710 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/330309119 war
death
memory
raising awareness
repressed memories
PTSD
story telling
time
loneliness
solitude
fate vs free will
so it goes
organized religion
apathy
mundanity
grief

]]> 2019-02-12 13:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/330309119 War https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/332988102 "You'll ]]> 2019-02-20 00:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/332988102 Free will https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333627824 “The flatcar sometimes crept, sometimes went extremely fast, often stopped-went uphill, downhill, around curves, along straightaways. Whatever poor Billy saw through the pipe, he head no choice but to say to himself, “That’s life.”” Page 115
—> things happen to us in life and these things are often out of our control: a deterministic view on free will in this case, all that has, and will happen exists as one ]]> 2019-02-21 14:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333627824 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628020 The will of being free]]> 2019-02-21 14:09:13 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628020 Free Will https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628262 "One of the biggest moral bombshells handed to Billy by the Tralfamadoraians, incidentally had to do with sex on Earth." 114]]> 2019-02-21 14:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628262 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628461 Everything that will happen happens and human free will comes out of not knowing the outcome ]]> 2019-02-21 14:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628461 We will all live forever yehkun88 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628480 2019-02-21 14:09:58 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628480 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628658 P. 117 We ignore the wars we look at pleasant moments like today at the zoo.]]> 2019-02-21 14:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628658 114-115 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628911 The tralfamadorians do not believe in free will. To them, life is predetermined and everything that is going to happen always will happen. They can see all of time all the time. They see the concept of free will and Billy’s way of viewing time as a trap almost. They feel like he is stuck in the present moment.]]> 2019-02-21 14:10:42 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628911 P117 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628935 Earth gets wiped out
The future 
Can’t prevent war
Look at pleasent moments ]]> 2019-02-21 14:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333628935 joshua_e_weinstein https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333629083 What happens isn't really their problem, the world ending is just another moment]]> 2019-02-21 14:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333629083 P.117 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333629465 The future is predetermined therefore what you think is free will doesnt exist since everything you do technically was decided before you exercised your free will to choose to do anything]]> 2019-02-21 14:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333629465 76-77 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333629641 The tralfamadorians view life as just being set out for them with no reason why]]> 2019-02-21 14:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333629641 Free Will https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333629750 "Whatever poor Billy saw through the pipe, he had no choice but to say to himself, "That's life." 115]]> 2019-02-21 14:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333629750 P. 117 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333629798 "He has always pressed it, and he always will. We always let him and we always will let him. The moment is structured that way."]]> 2019-02-21 14:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333629798 P 76-77 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333630104 “Why anything? Because this moment simply is.”
Everything is predetermined and no one has the ability to change the future ]]> 2019-02-21 14:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333630104 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333630348 Time doesn’t change its constant and the future which is only a construct of time will therefore also remain unchanged ]]> 2019-02-21 14:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333630348 Free Will https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333630429 "He has always pressed it and he always will." 117]]> 2019-02-21 14:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333630429 Those who die are meant to die yehkun88 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333630466 2019-02-21 14:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333630466 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333631114

]]> 2019-02-21 14:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/333631114 https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/336071313 2019-02-27 18:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/336071313 p. 27 "When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say that the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'So it goes"' https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/336194642 2019-02-27 23:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/336194642 p. 86 "'If I hadn't spent so much time studying Earthlings', said the Tralfamadorian, 'I wouldn't have any idea what was meant by 'freewill'. I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of freewill"' https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/336195327 2019-02-27 23:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/336195327 p. 116 "Somebody in the zoo crowd asked him through the lecturer what the most valuable thing he had learned on Tralfamadore was so far, Billy replied, 'How the inhabitants of a whole planet that has been engaged in senseless slaughter since the beginning of time"' https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/336196263 2019-02-27 23:33:23 UTC https://padlet.com/chollisgagnon710/a6qd0o6bftvk/wish/336196263