Chapter 2
In this chapter, we meet Billy Pilgrim, a man who travels between different times in his life. He meets the Tralfamadorians who can see in four dimensions, while a human can only see in three. He learned from these aliens that a person only appears to die, because that person is still alive in the past.
"Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'so it goes.'" (page 27)
In this quote, we learn that Billy has developed a strange outlook on death that he learned from these creatures. Instead of crying and mourning death like most people do, Billy gives a sort of mental shrug, and says "So it goes." In his mind, they only die in this one moment out of thousands of moments in one's life.
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