Today is New Years Eve and it will be 2016. New years is the beginning of a new year. It indicates the start of a new year and we are moving into a new time. In Slaughterhouse Five, the main character Billy goes through these phases of time. Billy has no control over time and can travel to the past and future. Time is very important to us since we have such a short time to live and we do not have the option to travel through time. However the Tralfamadorians do not care about time and time is not very important to them.
Billy finds comfort in knowing that that time is predetermined and unchangeable and there is no freewill. The tralfamadorian faith tries to make Billy feel like everything he has gone through, no matter how awful could not of changed. I wish we could change time and determine what happens to our lives. But I also like not knowing what is going to happen. Everything happens for a reason and that is how the world goes on and that is how everyone has lived for over the years.