The part in which we are first introduced to the concept of having not free will is here: " Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?' 'Yes.' Billy in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it. 'Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.'" (p.28)
Billy has probably realized that he has no free will before the Tralfamadorians captured him because he had traveled through time and probably has already realized that he can't change anything.
Before the aliens coming for Billy it there could have been discrepancies over if Billy really had free will he just didn't remember change anything because he had always remembered it that way. After their visit they state that in all the habitable planets with life that they know, in none is there "talk of free will"(p.31)
This brings up the question if we have free will. Is it possible that we are unable to change the events that will happen? There is no way of knowing since we can't look into the future like Tralfamadorians. This illusion of free will is instilled in to our subconscious by media, if we weren't given this feeling of certainty then our society might collapse. People would loose their their desire to continue working or attempting to better themselves. Everything would suddenly stop and the most horrible thing about having everything predestined is that if such an event were to happen it would be predestined.
It could be associated to the matrix because in the end Neo was the chosen one from the beginning of the story and although the illusion of choice was given to him there might have never been any. It could be plausible that our destination is predestined in history, heaven or hell but the path we choose to take there is up to us.
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