Summary Of Vonnegut

The story 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr is based in the future in 2081. Kurt Vonneguts stories take place in the future and are science fiction. In the future the world has population control and only a certain amount of people could live on earth. At the beginning of the twenty first century, there was not a lot of resources on earth to feed everyone. That is when population controlled came in, and the earth became a cleaner place to live and not so packed (Kurt Vonnegut). There were no issues on earth. The world was perfect. No one had any illnesses or were going to die. There was no crime, so no prisons needed. The only time someone would die, is if they would volunteer to die for someone else or they were just tired of life. Sounds like a perfect world, well it might be, if that person does not want to have children and want immortality.

Kurt Vonnegut, was born on November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, to American-German parents Kurt Vonnegut (Sr.), and Edith Vonnegut. Vonnegut had an older brother, Bernard and an older sister, Alice. Vonnegut graduated from Shortridge High School in Indianapolis in 1940 and went to Cornell University later that fall. Though he majored in chemistry, he was Assistant Managing Editor and Associate Editor of the Cornell newspaper. While at Cornell, Vonnegut enlisted in the United States Army. The Army then transferred him to the Carnegie Institute of Technology and finally the University of Tennessee to study mechanical engineering.

In the story, it is said that the ones with intelligence are given mental handicaps to keep them from having intelligent thoughts for too long and the ones who were beautiful, strong, and or athletic were given masks and weights which they must wear at all times. Also, during the time this was being written, people like Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X were fighting for human rights and the fact that they were not given fair opportunities was almost like they were handicapped. This evidence from the text shows how the handicaps could be used and the real-life surroundings of Kurt Vonnegut and what was happening in America around the time that this short story was being written shows how the government really does handicap certain groups of people to lessen the chance of them becoming successful people. The handicaps are still evident today because Americans and Canadians may like to think that all people have equal opportunities, but, the harsh reality is that women and people of colour are still not given the equal opportunities they deserve. This story also shows that through propaganda and the television, the government can brainwash

In it, people were handicapped when they were smarter, more beautiful, more athletic, more musical, etc. “[George’s] intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all time […] to keep people like George from taking unfair advantages of their brains.” (Vonnegut), as we know, in the constitution it states that everyone has equal rights, soon laws like that could escalate under corrupt government. It would prevent anyone from expressing who they truly are, it would make life more dull. Why do anything when someone else can do it? “[George's] thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm” (Vonnegut). Without any thought process to understand your emotions, how could you be happy? Mindless as time sits still, just like robots waiting for input commands people lie lifeless. "I don't care if you're not equal to me for a while." (Vonnegut). Human does as human can, when competition is presented to people, to take that chance is normal. When everyone is made the same, there is no competition. There is no, einstein, sportsman, etc. because everyone is equal in every which

Kurt Vonnegut, arguably the greatest American writer of the mid-1900’s, had experienced a variety of difficult events in his life that he incorporated into his writing, which made his work very unique and personalized. Although he doesn’t always explicitly explain his specific experiences in his short stories, he portrays them through his impactful style of writing. In 1944, Vonnegut was enlisted into the army and sent to Dresden, Germany, where he was later captured as a prisoner of war. While there, he watched the city become destroyed by an Allied bombing and was in utter disbelief. He states, “The destruction of Dresden was my first experience with really fantastic waste... To burn down a habitable city and a beautiful one at that. I was

Kurt Vonnegut once said, “We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” In this case, Vonnegut pretends to be science fiction writer, when in reality, he is writing about a million other things - kindness, peace, hope, religion, the human spirit - in which he has no obligation to be careful about who he pretends to be. Vonnegut’s work goes far beyond the traditional realm of a fiction writer, propelling him to be a form of a legend within the literary world. Kurt Vonnegut should be considered a classic author because of the lasting impact of his works, which are still in print today, the breakthroughs he’s made in his genre, and his enduring popularity among critics.

Human beings have been lying, and deceptive since the beginning of the human race. In Slaughterhouse five by Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut is a war prisoner, during the firebombing of Dresden. During the Cold War secrets of deception were unveiled, the Cold War propaganda and its secretiveness, the United States policy during the vietnam war, and the discredited scholar of British writer David Irving, all effects Vonnegut’s representation of the firebombing of Dresden and therefore Vonnegut had to release this book under fiction or have the worldview this book as another falsified document.

Sexuality highlights the variance between genders and, therefore, instigates the stereotypical and typecast stratifications between male and female. The abundant portrayals of women in literary and digital outlets characterize them as imbecilic sexual articles whose only aim in life include belonging to an intellectually superior man and bearing as many children as possible. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s existential and metafictional text, Slaughterhouse-Five, evince the trivialization of women through its male characters’ tendencies to over-sexualize women, demonstrating how heteronormative sexuality inflame the gender binary, and the discriminatory labels that go along with it, specifically through Montana Wildhack, Maggie White, Lily Rumfoord, and

The central conflict is about society and equality. Everyone has to follow the law and look exactly the same starting with wearing handicaps in the year 2081. The government thinks that this would help the world become more equal. “ All this equality was due to the two hundred eleven, two hundred twelve, and two hundred thirteen amendments to the constitution”... (Vonnegut 34). This means that this is on the law and those fearful of the government would definitely follow the law even if they didn’t agree with it. The fear with the government is also show when Hazel asks George to relax and take a few balls out of his handicaps and George disagrees and says... “Two years in prison and a two thousand dollar fine for every ball I took out.” said

A true war story and slaughterhouse five both are written by war veterans. A true war story can not be a moral. Vonnegut and O’brien both talks about the horrors of war. In a true war story you can not tell what is going to happen with you, you might get in danger as you get in last time or you will be safe again you never know because life brings a lot of surprises as stated by Vonnegut “It is difficult to separate what happened and what is going to happen” (O’brien pg 52). Vonnegut repeats phrases in his writing such as “so it goes” Vonnegut meant by that phrase that we can not stop what has happened. Vonnegut is writing a story about a war which happened 23 years ago on one of his quote stated that “All this happened, more or less” it make

A large part of my decision to enroll as a history major had to do with trying to put things into context. Before I reentered academia, I was a regular patron of the public library and spent a lot of my free time reading books. Mostly novels and mostly written in the 20th century, I found myself struggling to get a hold on where the characters landed in time and what their world was like. A particularly difficult book, and an important turning point in my decision to go back to school was Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Much can be said about the book but as it pertains here, I struggled to gain my footing as the time-jumping protagonist moved through important events in living memory that I had very little knowledge of. I could and did look up the dates and some of the figures, but the more that I read about World War II, Vietnam, and the Civil Rights movement the more I realized that a measured understanding of these events would elude me until I got a real handle on

Kurt Vonnegut once said, “So it goes” to describe the unavoidableness of fate. This aspect of seeing terrible things and being able to continue on would become a main theme in his novels. Vonnegut, as an author, received his essential voice by writing about his own experiences, using what would become his signature pessimistic yet humanist view. Vonnegut is described by Lindsay Clark as, “Worse than a pessimist… he is an eternal optimist doomed to disappointment” (Clark, “Viewing Four Vonnegut Novels through the Lens of Literary Criticism”). Moreover, Vonnegut has combined literature with science fiction and humor, the ridiculous with pointed social commentary and has created his own unique world within his novels and filled them with essentially different characters, such as the alien race known as the Tralfamadorians in Slaughterhouse-Five. Furthermore, Vonnegut’s personal previous experiences would play a massive role in his later novels. His experience at Dresden would define Slaughterhouse Five and other aspects of his life, such as his mother’s suicide would appear in works such as Breakfast Club. Moreover, works such as Cat’s Cradle, would give Vonnegut the essential audience he needed to be a successful writer. Overall, personal experiences and a powerful satirical view define Vonnegut as an author.

vonnegut could have made his literary work much more appealing when he had made this short story as a tease to the public and see if it was positively reviewed by the readers, then deciding to make it into a trilogy or a novel. if he had made this into a novel, backing it up with a great story behind the hg or what happened during the old ages that Mr Bergeron mentioned where everyone was competitively climbing each other the story could have a much bigger impact to readers of all

Jealousy can make people choose the wrong decisions. Kurt Vonnegut captured the feeling of jealousy through the use of the character Corporal Fuller. In the story Fuller came back from war, and was trying to meet up with his old friends to learn about what he missed while he was at war. When he was going to see a friend at the pharmacist's, he sees Susanna walking down the street like it was hers. Fuller saw that everyone was looking at her than he got mad because he wanted that

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is not a bad book. I will continue to admit that while the first chapter reminds me of A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, the second chapter made up for all the annoyance that had started to accumulate since the beginning. I am going to do my best to make this response journal as coherent as possible, but I will admit that there are some components in this novel that I just cannot find the appropriate words for.