At the beginning of chapter 7, Billy Pilgrim uses the metaphor "Lionel Merble is a machine. Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the universe is a machine." The Tralfamadorians believe that every man on earth was put her for a certain reason. They believe that we all have a certain mission that we need to follow. The purpose of this simile was to show some of the views of the Tralfamadorians. Vonnegut wanted us to see the way that humans are seen by other species. We are believed to be machines that are always being controlled. The Tralfamadorians do not believe in the fact of free will. They believe that even though we think we are making our decisions, something or someone is really controlling us. Unlike the Tralfamadorians, humans believe that we are free human beings that make our own decision. In America, unlike some other countries, we believe in free will and are given it. We believe that we have control of our future and that no one is in control of us. We take credit for our success as well as our failures. We believe that we make all of our life's major choices that effect our future. To us, the fact that others believe we are machines is insane. Even though it is an insane thought to us, the Tralfamadorians believe that all humans are machines.
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