Breakfast of Champions In the novel breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut, the author pushes his sexual agenda on his readers. His sexual agenda is that the more orgasams a person has directly correlates with the mental health and happiness of a person. Every character he introduces he prefaces with how many orgasams they have had on average per month for the past ten years. Those with a higher number are much more stable and aware emotionally and mentally than those with lower amounts. Over the past ten years, the happiest characters in the book are also those with the steadiest and highest amount of orgasams. Truck driver, Andy Lieber was introduced as having had 22 orgasams per month which is “far above the national average”…
In celebration of his 50th birthday, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a book to himself as a present which is mentioned by Vonnegut in the preface of the book. The name of this book is Breakfast of Champions. This book is primarily about the meeting between a car dealer named Dwayne Hoover and an old writer named Kilgore Trout. This meeting leads to Dwayne going insane. At first, this book may seem to be a mix of irrelevant information with no exact chronological order. At times, this book can also be very…
Terry Pratchett’s Diskworld series and beyond. Vonnegut exceled at breaking you out of your comfortable world. He would suddenly rip his Captain Nemo or Blackbeard off their ship and replace them with a rooster or more probably a well endowed horse, just for the simple purpose of shattering your little safe house or island that you as the reader had built to stand on while you watched the story unfold around you, all while making the obvious joke. As an example, In Breakfast of Champions…
There are many interesting things about the book breakfast of champions, a distinctive way of author writing style that defies fictional conventions, social commentaries and the exploration of relations between the fictional and the determinate. But these ideas are held by a very weak history, making everything less than its parts separately. The story unfolds around a science fiction writer called Kilgore Trout, and a car salesman named Dwayne Hoover. Away from where we are given to understand…
“Blue Ocean V19” is a song by rapper Jaden Smith. Jaden Smith is well known as actor Will Smith’s son. Also, Jaden Smith has starred in a number of movies with his father such as Pursuit of Happyness and After Earth. Will Smith’s daughter, Willow Smith, was also featured on the song providing background vocals. Jaden Smith has released several mixtapes and 2 albums. Blue Ocean V19 was released through Willow Smith’s “SoundCloud” account. I think Blue Ocean is about a Jaden Smith’s…
If a reader does not follow closely what the author is talking about, one would most likely get lost, and have to reread. The use of arrows in this selection seems to be how the author transitions. He has an average of one paragraph per arrow. Maybe this is his way of transitioning from thought to thought. Either way, he is breaking the frame. Modernists say that the first paragraph should contain the topic sentence. The first paragraph in Vonnegut’s The Breakfast of Champions talks about how he…
In the novel, Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut discusses the issue of overall emotional state of Americans. This seems to be a rather recurring theme of the novel. Previously, Vonnegut says: "A lot of citizens were so ignored and cheated and insulted that they thought they might be in the wrong country, or even on the wrong planet, that some terrible mistake had been made. It might have comforted them some if their anthem and their motto had mentioned fairness or brotherhood or hope or…
Five students report at 7:00am. for all-day detention, and at the end they must complete essa. Each of the students come from a different group , and they dont have nothing in common: beautiful and rish Claire Standish, the state champion wrestler Andrew Clarke, the bookworm Brian Johnson, the outcast Allison Reynolds, and the delinquent John Bender. The students pass the hours by talking, arguing, and, at one point,,they open up to each other and reveal their deepest secrets. We find out…
In the Novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson and his Lawyer, travel to Las Vegas to report the events of the Mint 400 motorcycle race about to take place in the Nevada desert. Operating under the pseudonyms, Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo, these two men have a bigger mission. Their mission is to search for the “American Dream”. However, they do not find a typical dream, but more of a nightmare. Tales of hitchhikers, paranoia, flying bats, and reptile people would plague readers’…
Annabella Woollacott Sendo Rhet and Argument 3 February 2025 Why French Toast is the Best Breakfast Food: A Sibling Debate About three weeks ago, my sister and I found ourselves in the midst of a classic breakfast food debate. While I, naturally, stood my ground in defense of French toast, she argued, passionately, that pancakes are superior. But let’s face it, there is no comparison. French toast is, without question, the superior choice for breakfast. Firstly, French toast has the perfect…