Free will, the ability of organisms to make choices without being influenced by divine intervention, is one of the most debated philosophical topics in the story. Kurt Vonnegut addresses this question in his two novels Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five. In the first novel, he talks about a religion based on the idea that God puts us in groups to accomplish his will. The second novel is about a group of aliens from the planet Tralfamadore who say that of the thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, "only on Earth do we talk about free will." In both novels, the protagonists Jonah and Billy accept their inevitable fate and therefore do not care about life or death. Through his two novels, Vonnegut depicts the futility of believing in free will in a universe controlled by fate. In Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut invents a religion based on lies called Bokononism. It relates that all of humanity is, unknowingly, organized into teams, called karass, who do God's will and never find out what they are doing. These karass revolve around a wampeter, an object that guides people to...