“The first sentence in The Books of Bokonon is: ‘All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies'” (5). This embodies the nature of Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut’s ridiculous collage of satire and black humor. Vonnegut, like the fictional holy man Bokonon, spins a tale of his ideals and convictions ...
At times Cat’s Cradle held my interest while other times I felt bored and compelled to skip through a few paragraphs (which can make the book confusing). I also felt like I could connect with certain characters, while other times I felt as though there was absolutely no connection at all. Like Vonnegut’s other works, ...
With any event in history it is impossible to 100% accurately predict a what if situation. Such is the case is the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. It is impossible to say with absolute certainty one way or the other in the debate of whether the atomic bomb should ...
Although the 1944-45 edition of Jane’s Fighting Ships estimated that the strength of the postwar 1946 U.S. Navy would be 18 battleships, 27 fleet aircraft carriers, and 79 escort aircraft carriers, actual records differ slightly. Two of the aircraft carriers on the 1946 list were not in service at the time the war ended. It ...
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