Slaughterhouse Five strives to remember the tragedy of the bombing of Dresden. Kurt Vonnegut builds his novel around a main character who becomes “unstuck in time” (23). Billy Pilgrim's life is told out of order, which gives him a different perspective than the rest of the world. Billy lives through his memories and revisits events in his life at random times and without warning. Vonnegut introduces Billy Pilgrim to the Tralfamadorian way of thinking about memory and time so that he can deal with getting unstuck in time. The Tralfamadorian ideology presents itself as an alternative to the human ideology of life. In the novel Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut constructs a reality in which memory is unproductive through Tralfamadorian narrative. Vonnegut places the main character, Billy Pilgrim, into this world as a method of coping with the fact that he is unstuck in time. Billy accepts and celebrates the Tralfamadorian ideology, but Vonnegut does not. I argue that Vonnegut sets up the binary between the Tralfamadorian way of rejecting memory and the human way of depending on memory to illustrate that humans are unable to accept the Tralfamadorian way of life. Throughout the novel, Vonnegut shows that remembering the past is actually productive; helps humans understand the past and move forward. Vonnegut addresses the human condition and the importance of remembering by juxtaposing it with the Tralfamadorian perspective, which he believes cannot be adopted by humans. Kurt Vonnegut develops the binary between Tralfamadorian ideology and that of the human being of time, memory, and life itself throughout the narrative. Vonnegut constructs a reality in which memory, free will, and time are nonexistent and unproductive....... middle of paper... The Tralfamadorian lifestyle is impossible for humans to achieve. Vonnegut rejects this lifestyle because we are unable to see things as aliens see them. We only see in three dimensions while aliens see in four, so we are unable to fully live their way. Human beings are burdened by the fact that they should not be passive and accept things as they are. Human beings must look to the past, regardless of the consequences, to improve the society of the future. The human condition is the fact that humans have free will and agency, but are not able to control everything. Humans should accept the things they cannot change, change the things they can, but should always be able to tell the difference (60). Vonnegut argues that human memory is productive and has a purpose, because without it human beings would be condemned to repeat history.