On page 87, Billy says, "And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes- "'with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other,'" (Vonnegut, 87). This quote really caught my attention because it is so strange and I had a hard time wrapping my head around what it was saying. After a minute I came to the conclusion that this quote might show how the Tralfamadorians view humans as a single organism that keeps on growing. The new part of the organism at one end and the old part at the other. This idea of a single organism reminded me of the train cars full of prisoners which were viewed as single organisms too. Do you think there is a connection between how the humans are viewed/ thought of in both these circumstances that lead them to be imagined as one organism?
Maybe the tralfamadorians see the humans as millipedes that just keep growing because to them time doesn't exist really, so as a human ages the millipede just keeps growing. They are unable to see the humans as they age with time.
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