Kurt Vonnegut is able to tie together the idea that fate is predetermined with the ideas that life is meaningless, by pointing out that the actions people take in life are inconsequential. Billy Pilgrim sees this in his everyday life, as he travels through time, showing him that all the events in his life are already set, and therefore there is nothing he can do to change what will happen to him. This has its effects on his emotion as he is very distant from his own life, as he sees the events that occur around him to be insignificant, even going as far as to say he doesn’t really see the point in living. During a scene he points out a quote he has on the wall of his office that tends to bring comfort to people, the quote essentially says that there are some things in life you can change and some you can not and to be ok with that, but the narrator combats this with, “Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future” (Vonnegut 60).…