Saturday, December 19, 2015
Post #2 Week #1 Bugs and Amber
On page 86 after Billy is kidnapped by the Tralfamadorians a Tralfamadorian says to him, "'take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all , as I've said before, bugs in amber'" (Vonnegut, 86). I thought this idea of bugs in amber was very interesting and I thought of it in two ways. One, the tralfamadorians being the bugs in amber, never changing just existing in time and observing what was happening around them. And two, the humans being bugs in amber and the amber is time. The tralfamadorians see humans stuck in moments of time. They see the humans life in different snapshots, yet always alive in some moments. What do you think the connection is between the tralfamadorians, humans, and bugs and amber?
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I was very confused about what bugs in amber met while doing the reading, but this really helped me better come to terms with that saying. But I am still a little confused as to the role of the tralfamadorians. Do the tralfamadorians also see their lives in different snapshots in time? Or do the tralfamadorians just see humans stuck in moments of time?
ReplyDeleteThat is a very interesting questions. I see the tralfamadorians looking at time as though they were flipping through a picture book almost like they are always there but not really "involved" in what's going on, just timeless observers. However, I think we are going to have to keep reading to figure out what exactly their role is.
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