Again, Chrono seems to have resigned himself to his fate and is skeptical that Unk can offer him an escape. Given Rumfoord’s prophecy about Constant and Beatrice having a child together, it’s clear that Chronos’s mother, Bee, is actually Beatrice. This further confirms the inevitably of fate in the novel, as it seems that Constant and Beatrice were predestined. On another note, It is perhaps important that many of the names in the novel—Helmholtz, Fernstermaker, Schliemann—are German. Vonnegut himself was descended from German immigrants, but he also ended up fighting against the Germans and being captured and imprisoned by them. In this sense, Vonnegut seems to be aligning the Martians’ cruelty with that of the Germans during World War II.