"Why me?"
"That is a very earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is." pg. 97
I chose this quote because I believe it sums up not only the chapter, but the book as well. It shows the overall theme of Science Fiction in reality, while still showing the lax attitude of Billy Pilgrim.
The significance of this quote in the book is that the Tralfamadorians have an expnded mind, and this is what Vonnegut shows Billy as. Billy is an expanded mind, and seems to understand the world more then people. This quote backs that up, and shows where this attitude comes from.
The ideas in this book remind me of the book The Martian Chronicles. In TMC the author focuses on how the aliens know more then the humans, and respect the universe more. The same theme is applied in Slaughterhouse V because the Tralfamadorians seem to have higher intellectual power than the earthlings.
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