A. After I read Galapagos, I thought it was a good story. It was a little
             different from other novels I have read in that the author, Kurt Vonnegut, had a
             different style than most other authors. I liked how he made comments about humans'
             "big brains" that always gave them foolish or reckless ideas that almost always had
             negative results. The way he showed how a world changed because people no longer
             thought that paper money was valuable provoked many thoughts about how something
             like that could actually happen.
             B. I saw myself a few times throughout the book. For example, I saw myself in
             Mandarax; always a source of some information, none of which is of use to most people.
             Mandarax would always have something to say under any circumstance, but usually
             what it said had nothing to do with what was going on. Much like an internet search
             engine, you give it a bit of information and in return you get a whole lot of nothing. I also
             saw myself in Leon Trout. When the blue tunnel into the afterlife came for him, he didn't
             want to go until he found out what happened to the people on the ship. Once I start
             reading something and it gets to a situation where someone is in trouble; I don't like to
             stop until I know they are safe.
             From this story I learned a lesson. Don't always trust your big brain?! Though
             it may tell the rest of your body to do the things that make you live and breathe, it will
             sometimes tell you to something that might endanger or kill you. For instance, Mary
             Hepburn's brain told her to put a plastic dress bag over her head to kill herself. I also
             learned to not judge someone by first sight or based on little knowledge. When Mary
             Hepburn first met James Wait, he was feeding some starving children. Sh...