Symbolism And Setting In Galapagos, By Kurt Vonnegut

Galapagos is a science fiction-fantasy story set in a third person narrative that was written by the author Kurt Vonnegut. Most of the story is set in the hotel of El Dorado in Ecuador and is spent introducing the characters of the story. The main characters are Mary Hepburn a widow from America who was a biology teacher at Ilium High School recently laid off from her job and mourning the death of her late husband Roy Hepburn who died of a brain tumor that slowly robbed him of his judgment and caused him to see visions of his past. None of Roy’s visions were true and elements of them were taken instead from his surroundings such as the golden retriever that Roy supposedly sacrificed to radioactive experiments named Donald who was in fact Roy’s dog and closest companion towards his death. Mary’s background in science and biology helped the crew of the Bahia do Darwin identify their location when the ship ran aground which was the island of Galapagos specifically the island of Santa Rosalia. She identified this island through a special finch that lived on the island known as the bloodsucking finch. Mary was also later revealed to be the one responsible for continuing the human race through the Kanka-bono women and the captain of the …show more content…
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has evolved into many ideas and ways an organism can involve. Darwin’s basic definition of evolution is that Evolution is how various organisms around the world had a common origin and that any differences that one can see today are through genetic mutations that occur in the eggs or sperm of an organism. Different ways Evolution can occur is through Natural Selection, Genetic Drift, Bottlenecking, Gene Flow, Survival of the Fittest, and