Bokononism In Cat's Cradle

Just because someone is seen as a certain ways doesn’t mean that is truly who they are. Someone's features don’t make them who they are or any less of a human as anyone else. It makes them who they are. In “Cat’s Cradle” many characters come off to someone completely different than who they really are. Papa Monzano has everyone believing he is christian because he knows bokononism is strongly disagreed with. He doesn’t let the world know until he barely has any time. He wants to get bokonon killed. Felix is seen to be still that younger kid he was because of the things he does. Something's about him stand out to show that he is older now and that in ways he has matured. Lastly Mona is seen to be some poster girl. Someone who everyone seems to fall in love with. Thing with her is that she can love others but Frank can not. All three of these characters are different than people think they should be.
Papa Monzano was a man who hid his real belief. Deep down he was really a bokononist. No one knew until it came to the day he was dying. They all thought he was christian. That day the secret came out to Jonah. The words “ member of the bokononist” (218) came out of his mouth. No one had knew it. He had kept it hidden. Bokononism was something everyone was against. He wanted …show more content…
She was one of the girls that “everyone man on earth” (121) wanted to have. She was a poster girl and a hotel was named after her. In the people's eyes Mona was more of a sex character. She did boko-maru with “many” people. In her eyes she loved everyone. When Frank had “[loved] another” (207) she went and did boko-maru with Jonah. In her eyes it was okay for what she did because she had no belief besides the fact that love wasn’t bad. What she didn’t agree to was that she couldn’t do boko-maru with other people. Mona was a two way kind of person. There was more to her that people didn’t see. More things on the inside of