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Kurt Vonnegut"Unready to Wear" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a short story that features a male narrator, Herb; his wife, Madge; and the inventor of being amphibious, Dr. Konigswasser. Herb describes his life as an...
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Kurt VonnegutThe science fiction short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut is set in the year 2081. To be able to discern what Vonnegut's satirical targets are, read the story over carefully and note...
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Kurt VonnegutThe notion of "the irrationality of groups" is present in many (or most or even all) of Vonnegut's works, from Slaughterhouse-Five to Hocus Pocus. Groups often believe in things that are both...
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Kurt VonnegutI hope that by "analyze" you mean that we should discuss our opinion about the quote. Here's mine. For the most part, I think this is true. Technologically and economically, new truths have made...
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Kurt VonnegutDear Abby: I have been in love with my childhood sweetheart, Catherine, all of my life. She does not know that I still love her. I am in the Army and I just found out she is getting married next...
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Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut's short story "All the King's Horses" is a satire in which, as literary critic Northrop Frye observes, "irony is militant." And, in this story, the militant irony is also a double...
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Kurt VonnegutIn this, Vonnegut's first published short story, which appeared in 1950, a good-hearted professor develops the psychic ability to destroy weapons even from a great distance away. He goes into...
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Kurt VonnegutThe hero in each of these stories is distinct individualist and dedicated to the pursuit of individuality. While self-knowledge is not part of this pursuit, self-expression and "integrity of being"...
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Kurt VonnegutYour question about Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is a little vague, in that I don't know if you mean actual advancements in science or advancements in science in the setting of the novel. The work uses...
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Kurt VonnegutIt would be helpful to your argument if you could find some references in Kurt Vonnegut's novel to the German V2 rockets which were described as "Hitler's secret weapon." Here is an excerpt from...
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Kurt VonnegutI believe (of course since I can't ask Kurt himself) that one of the main reasons he digresses so quickly and easily, particularly in creating a very non-linear narrative, is because there is no...
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Kurt VonnegutI came across your question and was intrigued by it. Given that I had not read the work, I wanted to find out what Vonnegut had meant by the word "twerp". I know what I believe it to be, but with...
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Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut Jr. had a menial career in writing by the time he finished and published what would become his most impactful novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. This was his opus and he told everyone who...
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Kurt VonnegutThe tone for much of the story before Harrison's appearance is somber, sardonic, and even fatalistic. Equality is portrayed as an established reality, the tone so insistent that we are immediately...