By picking the topic of procreation the author tries to alienate what we know about human procreation. People are used to believe there are just two sexes on earth, namely, males and females. But Kurt Vonnegut speaks of five distinct sexes- each crucial for procreation process on the planet Tralfamadore. He disproves the common idea that such creatures look different from humans. In contrasts, all their special characteristics cannot be perceived by humans since those differences are only visible in the fourth dimension. But humans only know three dimensions.
The most effective sentence is when the Tralfamadorians tell Billy that there are actually seven sexes on earth responsible for the creation of babies. This questions everything what Billy himself or we have known so far. The reader is intended to query if life is really how he or she perceives it? Is there something we don’t see? It is a good technique of the author to make the reader doubt human existence.
The last paragraph is striking, too. The Tralfamadorians try to help Billy to figure out which humans belong to which sex. They say that there could be babies only with homosexual males, but homosexual women are not needed. But this totally contradicts our idea of procreation, since there are needed both a male and a woman to create a baby.
The explanation the Tralfamadorians give him sound “gibberish” to Billy. But that’s just because Billy cannot image that there can be more than two sexes. So one can question if everything which is not visible is therefore not true?
The most effective sentence is when the Tralfamadorians tell Billy that there are actually seven sexes on earth responsible for the creation of babies. This questions everything what Billy himself or we have known so far. The reader is intended to query if life is really how he or she perceives it? Is there something we don’t see? It is a good technique of the author to make the reader doubt human existence.
The last paragraph is striking, too. The Tralfamadorians try to help Billy to figure out which humans belong to which sex. They say that there could be babies only with homosexual males, but homosexual women are not needed. But this totally contradicts our idea of procreation, since there are needed both a male and a woman to create a baby.
The explanation the Tralfamadorians give him sound “gibberish” to Billy. But that’s just because Billy cannot image that there can be more than two sexes. So one can question if everything which is not visible is therefore not true?
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