Kurt Vonnegut

One of the books i read this semester was called Alien 3 by Alan Dean Foster. Alien 3 follows after aliens and is apart of a trilogy of movies. Alien 3 takes place after the Aliens in which the main protagonist and her crew are in cryogenic sleep. While the humans are comfy and having a safe journey home the stories antagonist causes havoc on the ship causing a fire to the ship and impregnating Ripley. The ship that is badly wounded has to make an emergency landing at Fiornia 161 a all men…

In the monsters are due on Maple Street because in Andy Griffith show, they thought and thought just what they could do. Then finally in the monsters are due on Maple Street they just thought of something to do. In Andy Griffith Show they have just thought of something to do. Then on Maple Street they did what they thought of. Then on the Andy Griffith Show did the the samething. The thing that they have in common is the setting. The complicatons is to overcome a thing about the stanger,…

“Have you ever wondered if the government watches you”? Is a question that everyone has asked a friend or family member. In Harrison there government is somewhat like this but only worse. Everyone is the same no one is different no one has their own opinions, talents, and flaws. This is the way the main conflict conveys the author's message. The main conflict the author tries of Harrison Bergeron is that Harrison wants to be unique and have everyone be themselves and not controlled. In the…

accessories. Analysis I attempted to emulate Vonnegut’s sentence structure the most when it came to writing in his style. He seems to end sentences early to force the reader to make a pause between two related ideas. Several times in Harrison Bergeron Vonnegut ends a sentence just to start the next sentence with a conjunction, for example, in paragraph three “…in short bursts. And George, while…” Additionally, I tried to capture Vonnegut’s varied sentence lengths to simulate his rhythmic style.…

The Manipulation theme in Harrison Bergeson Kurt’s Vonnegut Jr. purpose in “Harrison Bergeron” is pretty clear, he wants to teach a lesson that all people are not equal in this world but rather, everyone has weaknesses and strengths that make each individual different in their own way. He creates a world where everyone is equal and a society that praise the lowest common denominator by focusing on beauty, intelligence, and strength rather than dealing with religion, race or gender, which are…

Have you ever lived in a society in where everyone is equal (but NOT in a way the people like it)? Harrison Bergeron did. He is a 14-year-old boy who lived in a dystopian world went to jail because the government considered him as a threat. Nothing stood in his way (not even 5000 pounds of metal handicaps attached onto him.) Harrison is a genius and an athlete who escaped from jail. He is so strong that he took off all of his metal handicaps by ripping them off like a wet tissue.(page 114)…

1. The fact that the government had added 213 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution shows us they they got really serious about rules, what you can and can not do, and very serious about making everyone equal. 2. The narrator says that Georges ¨thought fled in panic like danits¨ it pretty much is saying that his thoughts just go all over the place and he can't ever quite remember what he was thinking about. 3.In the story for people that need to be handicapped because of the way they look or how…

Harrison Bergeron Paper Harrison Bergeron is a story about equality and total government control. No one is allowed to be different from each other in anyway. People have to wear handicaps so that everyone is the same height, speed, and even amount of beauty. The author is trying to say that total equivalence is dangerous. People not being able to think about thoughts more than 20 seconds, very talented individuals throughout the story are held back by handicaps like the ballerinas, and people…

One of the main themes of Cat's Cradle is the role of religion on people. Vonnegut concerns himself with the idea that religion is a means to restore optimism to a world damaged by the cold truths of science and reality. A good example of this is the religion of Bokononism in San Lorenzo. When telling about past of this religion, Julian Castle explains, "when it became evident that no governmental or economic reform was going to make the people much less miserable, the religion became the one…

Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else...(Vonnegut)”. Clearly, with the quote, we can identify that the society is dystopian and it's freedom rights are limited. The author's theme in this that if we follow the path and argue over equality, we may end…