2BR0 Kurt Vonnegut Summary

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Does everything in this world always last? Do we ever really change? In the story 2BR0/2B Kurt Vonnegut explores this in a fictional story where there is now population control. A man by the name of Wehling is going to be the father of triplets. A painter has made a mural at this time also depicting life in a good way although he doesn’t believe this. 2 important people see the mural one of them being the creator of this new world. They then go to talk to Wehling and instead are killed by him and he kills himself to make room for his children. The painter sees this and then volunteers to kill himself. Throughout the story one theme is portrayed mainly and is that change is inevitable.

First of all, this is shown by the painter who

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