Kurt Vonnegut, like so many other writers before him, has taken up the role of humanities critic. He is a satirist. His works cause us to laugh out loud at the stupidity of human behavior, and then recoil in self-defense. Like all satirists, Vonnegut mercilessly takes aim at the unholy truths on ...

Analysis of Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, one of the century's greatest anthropological works, deals with religion, science, and the end of the world; its major theme involves the symbolic nature of the title of the book. The theme of the cat's cradle is used throughout the book...

Kurt Vonnegut has written more then twenty books in the years he has been writing. Many of his books share characters, settings, or situations. Using the same characters and such creates a unity throughout his books. Likewise, Vonnegut seems to repeat themes throughout many of his books. A numbe...

Kurt Vonnegut: Cat`s Cradle The book is about an author named Jonah who collects material for a book called „The day the world ended". This book should be an account of what impotant Americans had done when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. So he contacts Newt Hoenikk...

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The Worshiped and the Damned There are many ways in which one can describe the idea of alienation and the relationship between an individual to a society. Whether or not people believe alienation to be beneficial to a person or group, the fact is that it has become a large part of what makes hu...