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Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

In six pages this essay discusses how Vonnegut's disdain for technology is represented in his novel. There are no additional sour...

Kurt Vonnegut's The Player Piano

and technological know-how. Because the production lines were very efficient and cranked out high-quality goods on a regular and p...

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five from a Historical Context

In seven pages this 1968 novel by Kurt Vonnegut is examined from an historical perspective. Six sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Billy Pilgrim's Changes in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

000 souls. Partnering with Opposites Throughout the novel there are many "partnerings" with opposites. If an image repeats itsel...

Slaughterhouse Five Analysis

of nearly every day of his childhood" (38). The fact that the crucifix depicts a dead Jesus is significant because it represents ...

Sociology and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

In fifteen pages this paper examines this novel by Kurt Vonnegut from a sociological perspective. Five sources are cited in the b...

Social Responsibility in Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the sociological aspects of Kurt Vonnegut's science fiction novel. Two sources are cited in...

Themes of Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

In four pages this essay discusses the themes related to this novel by Kurt Vonnegut including human beings and how they handle wa...

Comparing Elie Wiesel and Kurt Vonnegut's and Their Works about the Holocaust

outrage and sorrow. However, Vonneguts protagonist, Howard Campbell, is not precisely a victim in the Holocaust at all. He stress...

Interpretation and Theme of Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

In five pages this paper analyzes Vonnegut's novel in terms of theme, interpretation, and meaning. Six sources are cited in the b...

Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron and Equality

Kurt Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron" Study Questions vonnegut.htm). The answer to this question would be yes because, when we imagine...

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Yon Yonson's Cyclic Poem

that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...

Summary of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

to become an optometrist. He falls in love with the daughter of the schools owner, Valencia. However, he soon has a break down bec...

Reader Response to Kurt Vonnegut’s Short Story ‘Welcome to the Monkey House’

agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...

Literary Devices in Slaughterhouse-Five

which has a definable beginning, a middle, and an end" (Forrest). Not only that, but the initial scene of the book sets reveals ...

"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut: Point of View

The story's meaning as influenced by the omniscient third-person point of view adopted by Kurt Vonnegut is discussed in 4 pages. ...

Science, Religion, and Being Set Free by Untruths in Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

multimillionaire Julian Castle, who now resides on the Caribbean island of San Lorenzo. This impoverished country is also home to...

Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron, George Orwell's 1984, and Egalitarianism

In a paper consisting of 7 pages these texts are compared in terms of their egalitarian philosophies and considers whether or not ...

'Slaughterhouse Five' by Kurt Vonnegut and the Theme of Acceptance

everything leads back to itself without ever answering anything. The story, and the life of Billy, is nothing more than an endless...

Analyzing Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

is constantly being reminded of the process of construction, whilst being involved in the construct itself in the form of the text...

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Timequake

can they avoid any disasters they know are coming their way. This leaves every individual in a position where they have absolutely...

Satire in the Writings of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Mark Twain

addresses the audience. Twain perhaps understood that critics were bountiful and that his work would be critiqued in many respects...

The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut and Conformity and Appearance

IN ten pages the author's contention that conformity interferes with self understanding is examined within the context of three st...

Utopias in Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

In six pages this paper examines how utopia ultimately led to dystopia in a comparative consideration of these two literary works....

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and Bokononism Religion

In 5 pages the fictional religion Vonnegut developed in this novel is examined in terms of the ways in which it distracts people f...

A Review of Harrison Bergeron

their identity. The bands make the citizens equal in physical strength and intelligent. They are, by all accounts, supposed to be ...

Kurt Vonnegut and William Gibson's Science Fiction

cyberworld just ahead of the concern which began to take place in the real world. Unlike many of his predecessors who liked to pre...

A Review of Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

A 6 page analysis of the societal message being presented in this work. Plot and characters are outlined and the emphasis that th...

The Theme of Alienation as it is Portrayed in Novels of the 20th Century

"alienation has especially come to signify the difficult relation between the individual and his sense of difference and distance ...

Vonnegut: "Cat's Cradle"

was a POW in WWII and went through the firebombing of Dresden (an experience that plays out in his books repeatedly) (Priest). Wi...