Kurt Vonnegut is widely known and respected for his black humor and his expert use of satire. He has been called America’s greatest satirist by many. A prime example of Vonnegut’s usage of satire as well as irony is his book The Sirens of Titan. In the book, a rich yet disgusting man named Malachi Constant is offered the chance to travel through space by another powerful man, Winston Niles Rumfoord. Rumfoord, who has the ability to see the future, prophesizes that Constant and his wife, Beatrice Rumfoord, will travel to Mars and have a son together who will carry what he calls a “good luck piece.”
