Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 4 Post 1 of 2

       In chapter four, a very accurate and interesting analogy is made. The analogy, a comparison made between two things to show their similarity, is made between Pilgrim's time jumping and a blob of amber. The Tralfamadorians say that the moment in time Pilgrim is like a bug in amber; it simply exists. When the aliens say, "It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber," (Vonnegut, 86), it clearly depicts the analogy Vonnegut had procured in this literary work. The structure that is time, and everything moving along within it, simply exists, different at every moment.