Kurt Vonnegut “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be”. Have you ever felt that there is a discrepancy between who you know you are and who people think you are? Deep inside you know you are not like that. We start every day by putting ...
“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 ...
It has been said that a person is the sum total of all of his or her experiences. Validity of this quote is evident in the writing of Kurt Vonnegut, who some describe as such. Living through the Great Depression and serving in World War II gave him a profound perspective that he poured into ...
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, ...
In 1966 in Iowa City, he wrote for the introduction of his latest book, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” To me, this seemed to be a very intelligent, straightforward, and common sense thing to write. But then, Kurt Vonnegut was a very ...
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