Kurt Vonnegut

but our constant pollution of them will result in its end. The only solution is for change; America must cut back on the constant pollution of its waterways. In the novel Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, a similar issue to America’s modern issue is Frank’s pollution of Ice Nine into their water supply. Vonnegut explores the problem of pollution as it illustrates the…

Harrison Bergeron In the short story, Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison stood up for what he believed. Similarly to Harrison, a couple of people I know felt they needed to stand up for what they believed in. Many people don’t stand up for what they believe in because of fear. While everyone else was afraid to rebel and stand up for what they thought was right, Harrison, who was just fourteen years old, was able to escape from jail. Although people feared him, his intentions…

Galapagos is a science fiction-fantasy story set in a third person narrative that was written by the author Kurt Vonnegut. Most of the story is set in the hotel of El Dorado in Ecuador and is spent introducing the characters of the story. The main characters are Mary Hepburn a widow from America who was a biology teacher at Ilium High School recently laid off from her job and mourning the death of her late husband Roy Hepburn who died of a brain tumor that slowly robbed him of his judgment and…

reduced refugee civilian population along with the POW’s that witnessed many of their own planes bombing them. Billy Pilgrim had to hide in a refrigerator in order to survive. This would turn any one of those POW’s to take an anti-war stance, like Vonnegut and Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse…

episodes of Slaughterhouse-5, Vonnegut follows Billy Pilgrim, a man whose mind has become “unstuck” due to the horrors of war. The semi-autobiographical novel spirals through Billy’s life, creating a dizzying and broad narrative touching on the countless unnamed people through arbitrarily linked segments. A major aspect of the novel is the trauma Billy experiences throughout the war, conveying Vonnegut’s own suffering and allowing the audience to empathise with both. Vonnegut explores the manner…

Imagine you are in a box. A glass box. A plexiglass box. This plexiglass box is hurtling through space at a speed too fast for you to fully comprehend. The funny thing is though, you are not afraid. In fact, you could not be any more indifferent towards your current place in time, and in space. You are Billy Pilgrim. In the poem I Do Not, by Michael Palmer, the narrator makes a point of telling you again and again (In English) all the words he doesn’t know, and all the things he cannot say in…

Almost every time a paragraph ends with this phrase, Vonnegut talks about death preceding it. He uses the aliens to describe how we have no control on how or when we die, which is lacking free will. Vonnegut says "While Billy was recuperating in a hospital in Vermont, his wife died accidentally of carbon-monoxide poisoning. So it goes" (25). Although his wife died, Tralfamadorians…

On April 15, 2005, Richard Louv published his book Lost Child in the Woods, a book about the relationship between people and nature. Louv was born in 1945 and dedicated his life to journalism and writing books connecting nature and the community, Lost Child in the Woods being the most well-known and impactful on society. Louv coincidentally was born in 1945, the year when 51 countries were attacking each other (again) in what is commonly known as World War II. Post-war, America had a peace…

Historical events support the theme of challenging the power structure in both Pleasantville and To Kill a Mockingbird because when characters challenge the power structure, there purpose is to achieve equality for everyone in their society. In the movie Pleasantville Bud and his sister Mary Sue are transferred into Buds favorite television show, Pleasantville. In Pleasantville everything is black and white and every family wants to be viewed as the perfect family. They follow a very…

“Auto Wreck” reveals what its poet considers to be the terrible secret of modern life: the creeping indifference toward technological determinism, the simple violence of machine against human being in which everyone participates by failing to be troubled or moved by such disasters as automobile wrecks. The tone of the poem is likely to be melodious which an imagism verse is. It is a short, lyrical narrative poem. The poem is described in first person narrative. The poet in short is trying to…