In this novel, the author explores some themes that prove to be the main ideas of the story. The main themes include the destructiveness of war, the importance of sight, and the illusion of free will. In addition, these themes are presented in a somewhat camouflaged way. The main character, Billy Pilgrim, is a successful optometrist who had been in World War II. He struggles to understand his own life and the reason why people cause destruction and war. In the story, Pilgrim has flashbacks of when he was a prisoner of war and gets transported back and forth through time. He also gets kidnapped by aliens, by whom he is taught about the fourth dimension, where time occurs and reoccurs infinitely. All of this is caused by his time in war and his witnessing of the bombing of Dresden.The main theme of this novel can be widely agreed to be the destructiveness of war. When Billy Pilgrim was in the war, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden, Germany. This situation caused a kind of depression in his life twenty years later. Another incident that stayed with him throughout his life was when a soldier was shot by a firing squad for trying to steal a teapot from the rubbles of the fire, further emphasizing the pointlessness of war. He tries to make sense of all this and begins to fantasize about the Tralfamadorians who are an alien race. These aliens abduct Pilgrim and put him in a special place for humans to further study the human race. The Tralfamadorians tell Pilgrim about their knowledge of the fourth dimension and how time is always reoccurring. Since they know time occurs over and over again, they know the future and care less about things such as death and war since it is unalterable and inevitable. Tralfamadore, then, becomes Pilgrim's refuge from the real world since he doesn't have to worry about the bad things that happened in war. The importance of sight is another theme portrayed in the novel but it isn't as key as the destructiveness of war. Since Billy…