ks that will be examined are Kurt Vonnegut's, "Player Piano", the movie, "Rebel Without a Cause", and Jack Kerouac's, "On the Road".
             In Kurt Vonnegut's novel, "Player Piano", many similarities can be seen between the post-war period in the novel and post WWII in America. In post WWII America there was an extreme shift towards conservatism and an extreme prejudice towards communism. In the post-war period in the novel there was also an extreme shift towards conservatism, but instead of an extreme prejudice towards communism there was an extreme prejudice towards sabotage. Sabotage and communism can be interchangeable because they both mean radical change or thinking and were ideas or acts that were against conformity and conservatism. Vonnegut used sabotage in place of communism to better describe the situation in his novel, but was actually using his novel to describe the current situation in America. During post WWII, communism was a lurking threat in the world and in America. Many feared that communism would expand its influences into America. This wa
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