Kurt Vonnegut

Mr. Vonnegut, After thoroughly analyzing and metaphorically murdering your novel, Slaughterhouse Five, I have come to a much overdue conclusion that I think you 'll very much enjoy. Your use of figurative language has captured my heart in a way that no one else could. I adore Billy 's incredible personality, I strongly dislike the German soldiers that imprisoned all of your characters and the people who wanted to murder Billy. I feel empathetic for Billy 's first wife, Valencia since Billy met…

In the short story, The Euphio Question by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., the author was criticizing the idea of escapism through the text. As the euphio was being tested by a small group of characters they were testing the machine’s ability to make them happy. The dictionary defines escapism as a tendency to seek distraction from unpleasant realities, which is what the character's goal was. They tried to use this machine to make them happy and forget about all their real world problems and just go into a…

In the novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut it is immediately clear that the author’s intent was to write a novel revealing the effect that war has on the people involved and address these issues as well as how harmful the glamorization of them are by writing an anti-war satire. Vonnegut executed this successfully by explainingly thoroughly the lasting effects war has on people and using examples of the negative and desperate ways that these people will try to cope with their feelings…

typically to a person, place or thing, and serve to identify it. There are three characters symbolized by The Mafia, a bitter writer and an advocate for children. Mob action is characterized by Paul Lazzaro in the book Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut who is described as a polka dotted car thief from Cicero, Illinois (162). “Lazzaro said that he…

the novel Cat’s Cradle the author Kurt Vonnegut uses satire as constructive criticism for society. If the reader is not looking for this satire they might miss the satire completely and need to seek outside sources beyond the novel itself to understand Vonnegut’s humor. In order to interrupt Vonnegut’s novel the reader must connect broad topics such as religion and government to the novel’s version; Lionel Johnson and “Papa” Monzano. An example of Satire that Vonnegut uses that is difficult to…

Unfortunately, these societies exist in the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and The Giver, a novel by Lois Lowry. Both societies’ governments force equality on all citizens and believe that the society is a utopian, however, what is being created is a dystopian society. Both also deal with the death of individuality and suppressing a person’s true self. In “Harrison Bergeron”, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. shows the trying to be equal in beauty, intelligence, and strength…

Just average is good enough. No one should be smarter, faster, stronger or more attractive than the next. This is the extremist view that the author, Kurt Vonnegut, was trying to portray in his short story “Harrison Bergeron.” The year is 2081; the United States has elected a “Handicapper General” (or HG) to dole out restrictions on the general population to restrict free thinking, beauty, and athleticism. It’s not addressed however one could assume the HG does not have any handicaps; this…

this great nation had many goals when creating the government. One of those goals was equality, and even though people had to fight to secure those rights, that begs a question. What if everyone were totally equal? Harrison Bergeron is a story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr where everyone is truly equal. Everyone is equally weak, dumb and ugly. In this story, the main character is killed after attempting to overthrow the government. Out of all of the many themes of Harrison Bergeron, including “Total…

Kurt Vonnegut uses imagery and manipulation of fiction to reveal truths about human nature we would deny. Cats Cradle and Slaughter-House Five are two examples of Vonnegut 's writings that use these skills to show the gory, but at times hilarious truths of war, science and reality. Although both novels have their plots and characters, they shared some common ideas and themes. In the novel Cats Cradle, John the narrator sets out to research information for his book titled "The Day the World…

In this passage of his novel Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut describes the Tralfamadorian approach to writing a book and cleverly expresses his disapproval towards their mindset that accepts everything as unchangeable and avoids the problem. Tralfamadorians have the ability to view all periods time simultaneously, so they see all of time as already predetermined. Consequently, they write their books with episodic storytelling to make one holistic image of life as beautiful and deep. Since…