Chapter 4 Bugs in Amber Metaphor

     In Chapter 4, Vonnegut uses the metaphor "Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, like I've said before, bugs in amber." When Billy is on the planet of Tralfamador, he keeps asking questions like "Why me?" and every time, the Tralfamadorians tell him that he is a bug in amber. When they say this, they are speaking of how he is there against his own free will. When bugs are stuck in amber, they have no way of escaping. Just as while Billy is on Tralfamador, he is stuck there with no way of returning.
The Tralfamadorians tell him to take it moment by moment because when you savor each moment that you are presented with you will begin to see how our lives are controlled by other things. They are trying to tell him that he has no control over what happens in his life, when he already knows that there are some things in his life that he can control.
     The metaphor that Vonnegut used can also be applied in our lives. We know that sometimes we have no control of things in our lives. Just as Billy Pilgrim asks "Why me?", we sometimes have the same questions. Like when something bad happens to us, we tend to ask questions that we will never know the answers to. Sometimes in our lives we are "bugs in amber" and feel as though we are stuck in life. When something bad happens to us or someone we know, we tend to feel just as Billy does. But just as Billy's plaque said in the last chapter, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."