Thursday, December 17, 2015
Post #1 Week #1 Billy Weeping
On page 61 Billy is randomly weeping, "every so often, for no apparent reason, Billy Pilgrim would find himself weeping" (Vonnegut, 61). Then on page 63, Billy goes back to the time of WWII and is actually weeping, "he closed his eyes, and opened them again. He was still weeping" (Vonnegut, 63). I figured the random weeping in the future might be connected to what had happened in the past. Previously in the book Billy had been hovering between two times. This lead me to wonder if Billy could be experiencing the emotions of something that happened in the past in the back of his mind while he is present in the future causing him to cry at random. Do you think Billy is randomly weeping in the future because subconsciously he is also at a time in the past when he was weeping?
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That is a very interesting perspective that I hadn't thought about. When I was reading that part I thought that Billy was crying just from the horrific events that he faced during his time in the war, and his mind was still traumatized by those experiences causing Billy to emotionally react at random times. But after hearing what you had to say about this I think that you are definitely onto something. I am very curious as to if this subject will come up again in the book and to see what else is said about this.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the both of you in that, Megan, it definitely could be the memories that Billy has of the horrors he has seen, but I also like how Martha took it a little deeper and really got to thinking on how it could possibly be that Billy is subconsciously at a time in the past when he was weeping.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the both of you in that, Megan, it definitely could be the memories that Billy has of the horrors he has seen, but I also like how Martha took it a little deeper and really got to thinking on how it could possibly be that Billy is subconsciously at a time in the past when he was weeping.
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