Mother Night

In Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, the Blue Fairy Godmother, also known as Colonel Frank Wirtanen and Harold J. Sparrow, tends to show up when the protagonist, Howard Campbell, is in a fix. Let's...

The first literary device we encounter in the first page of Vonnegut Jr.'s novel is tricolon parallelism, used to create a paradoxical effect. The second literary device is paradox, used to create a...

1) Campbell's compromise of his integrity was in the fact that he did not divulge his true identity as an American spy to anyone, including his wife and parents. He allowed them to believe that he...

Howard W. Campbell appears in Kurt Vonnegut's best-known novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, in a minor role as "the American Nazi," a flashy, sophisticated propagandist for the Third Reich. In an earlier...