"'Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.'"
Says the omniscient alien Tralfamadorian who can see through the fourth dimension. Yet, what he says has a grain of truth. To explain the reality of the situation to Billy Pilgrim, the alien uses a
metaphor. A metaphor is described as a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of specific comparison words. In this particular metaphor, the bug is used to symbolize the life of an innocent human being, and the amber is used as a symbol for the path of fate that he is predisposed to follow.
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A rather sticky situtation if I do say so myself.
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The Tralfamadorians once again show their vast superiority to Earthlings by explaining their knowledge to "...see all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains." And also their wisdom by answering Pilgrim's question of "Why?" by simply and matter-of-factly stating that there is no
why. On the other hand, in the seemingly unending omniscience that is the Tralfamadorian race, they seem to have little to no grasp of abstract concepts such as love, compassion, or
free will. All that, you know, important stuff. "Only on Earth is there talk of free will."
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