I thought I might interrupt the other chapters by telling you HOW Vonnegut shows these meanings and how he ridicules the ideas of free will, fate, and time.

For one thing, the story of Billy under the control of aliens reveals lack of free will. [As the example in when they make Billy have sex with the actress] These aliens can represent a lot of different things, ranging from God or the government. The lack of ability to stop his death when he knows it's going to happen show that he is submitting to his fate. The story of him traveling backwards and forwards between the past, some time that does not exist, and the present time also shows how time matters very little. Like the story of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Vonnegut shows how fate and time run in patterns of circles. There is no free will when there is things such as fate and destiny which control it. There is merely the idea of free will. And despite the tone of the narrator, these deeper meanings are beneath the criticism and mocking tone.