Cat's Cradle

that plant came from, you don’t know why the character is holding, and you don’t know what they could possible do with it. You couldn’t imagine what the Cornucopia in The Hunger Games really looks like, you have no clue as to what the landscape in Cat’s Cradle looks like after the ice-nine got to it, and you’re lost in a blank nothingness where there is nothing but characters. The setting is at least half of what makes a fantastic story what it…

Cats have always been a favorite among the pet lovers community. The small, adorable little furballs hold a very special place in most people's hearts,young or old, in today’s constantly changing society. From viral internet videos to playing with shoelaces on the living room floor, cats have made a big impact on many. While that is a spectacular thing, cats had to through countless cultures and civilizations before finally arriving in the present day society, alongside humans. The very first…

On November 11th, 1922, Edith Vonnegut gave birth to Kurt Vonnegut Junior in Indianapolis, Indiana (“Vonnegut, Kurt, An Introduction” 1). This location would remain integrated into Kurt’s life despite his incredible life journeys; he often referred to this city as a symbol of American values in many of his novels. Before the Great Depression, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. had grown up wealthy. Kurt’s mother was the daughter of a wealthy brewer and his father became a famed architect; however, during the…

Introduction Conflicts with equality are happening constantly in the United States of America. In the short story, “Harrison Bergeron,” written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., has taken equality to the extreme. In the story, it hints at the reader what can happen in the future if the wrong person gets in charge of the government. With the influence of media, Vonnegut expresses his responses about equality and individual freedom when “everyone is equal in every which way” in “Harrison Bergeron.”…

In “Guns Before Butter” Private Kniptash, Private Donnini, and Private Coleman are prisoners of war with Corporal Kleinhans as their German guard. The POWs make a habit out of exchanging and creating recipes together while the corporal scolds them for thinking about food while they are on such low rations (Vonnegut, page 75). The corporal begins to identify with the three men through food and as they slowly bonded over food, the corporal accepts punishment for having Donnini and Kniptash’s…

The best way to sum up the sixties is that it was an era with a multitude of ideological clashes. Americans were split on issues such as race, gender, and sexual orientation while the world was divided between Capitalism and Communism. These views can be found in American pop culture, especially literature. Themes such as gender equality, racial equality, anti-war sentiment, technological advancements, and religion can be found in literary pieces during the 1960s. On August 18, 1920, the 19th…

restaurant a great choice for couples with different dietary needs. I decided to bring my vegetarian girlfriend to the restaurant to see if it was able to satisfy both our palates. As we journeyed down Franklin Street to the restaurant, we passed Cat’s Cradle, a small concert venue that hosts many local indie and folk bands. It happened to be the day of the popular Carrboro Music Festival, and as we walked we could hear the din of loud music and crowds. As we approached the Spotted Dog, we…

A remarkably notorious philosopher, Aristotle, refers to slaves as “living tools”. Throughout history many societies have adopted slavery to further their overall production of goods and to expand trade. Whether people were enslaved for economic benefit or a matter of racism is the question at hand. One could assemble many arguments that the enslaved community was solely suppressed for reasons concerning racism, however slavery was economically beneficial to landowners and plantation development…

It is commonly understood that we accept that which we are comfortable with. We are comfortable with our families, so we trust them. We are comfortable with our friends, so we trust them. But how do we determine trustworthiness in those we do not know at all? Trust, in such cases, is often built through finding commonalities between ourselves and others, or by simply forming a generally positive perception of an individual. Film most clearly illustrates this principle. When we peer into a text’s…

can get my strength and wits back to face the day. It's taking a vacation, and without being able to do that, I'd die of exhaustion. You can only run nonstop for so long. I think that without our stories, most of us would be in big trouble. In Cat's Cradle, one of Kurt Vonnegut's characters announces that "When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed." The man then asks a doctor, "Sir, how does a man die when…