The Nature Of Chaos In Breakfast Of Champions By Kurt Vonnegut

but we still can hypothetically see, through the pictures painted by the travel guide Travis, that one trivial matter and one wrong move could destroy an“ entire history of life ” . Then, one of the men panicked and ran away. He fell off the platform as he rushed back and scrabbled at a golden butterfly with shaking fingers accidentally. Finally, the group of people went back to travel agency. While dramatically effective, the ending contradicts Bradbury’s earlier example of the dominoes effect and the mouse.We can infer from the ending that while the players remain the same, but people’s character and concept changed. For instance, the official had supported Krith brfore their began time trival, but when they came back, the official supported Krith’ s rival and hated Krith. What more, presidential candidates Keith and Deutscher, that their environment and the evolution of the human language has been influenced.

In life, sometimes random events will lead to one’s death. These two stories, “Popular Mechanics” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, both portray this idea. “Popular Mechanics,” written by Raymond Carver, has a baby torn apart by its own mother and father's hate for one another. The mother randomly saw the picture of the child and took it, and this stirred up emotions in the both of them. Enough emotions to stop paying attention to the child’s well being. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is written by Flannery O’Connor, and in it a family of six crash because of their cat, and a murderer of a sort drives by randomly, eventually leading to the death of them all. In these two stories, both the important characters die in the climax, and both characters, baby and cat, are catalysis in the story. The style of each story is negative writing and destructive in nature.

In Popular Mechanics the author, Raymond Carver, uses painstaking details, numerous symbols, and an unusual title to convey the universal theme that not all relationships end happily. Carver uses all these things to his advantage. He brings out the theme of this depressing, but truthful story. Many couples these days experience the same thing that this one in particular went through. "Early that day the weather turned and the snow was melting into dirty water." Carver starts off the story in this way. It is obvious that something bad is coming or has even already happened. The tone is grim from the very beginning and it also gives us an idea of what is to come. The weather outside is dark, "But it was getting dark on the inside too." This

This shows that overtime hope was lost,though not all had lost hope with the passing of time but once hope was lost either from the beginning or towards the end it lead each and every one of them into a state of mind which made them think and act as their desires will, they thought their savage behaviour was fine because in the end, no one was going to save them. The lost of hope within the boys was one of the reasons the boys were lead to chaos.

Raymond Carver, author of “Popular Mechanics”, is a minimalist writer. Using the least amount of setting and character dynamics Carver makes the audience analyze the small details and actions that the people in the story do that would be seemingly nothing. The word ‘little’ at the beginning of the story is something that a lot of readers do not catch the first time reading this story, but it is a very important word that plays into the rest of the story. Carver uses small actions to grab the reader’s attention later in the story. Small actions, such as the woman picking up the baby’s picture and the knocked-down flower pot, take on larger significances, such as what the state of the relationship is, in “Popular Mechanics”.

By the end of the journey, it is obvious the narrative is a tragedy. The author has formed this safety blanket,

I think that these two stories represent the inner struggle that we all have in our endeavors to achieve perfection, and hide our own faults from the world. These efforts will eventually drag some of to our ends.

In the end the entire earth is destroyed, through a seemingly impossible series of coincidences and completely random events, which strangely enough, are all explained adequately by Bokononism. Throughout the story Vonnegut builds up his theme of the pointlessness of life with the aid of satire. One of the main ways this feeling of pointlessness is accomplished is through the use of irony.

    Cat's Cradle is, "Vonnegut's most highly praised novel. Filled with humor and unforgettable characters, this apocalyptic story tells of Earth's ultimate end, and presents a vision of the future that is both darkly fantastic and funny, as Vonnegut weaves a satirical commentary on modern man and his madness" (Barnes and Noble n.pag).  In Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut uses satire as a vehicle for threatened self-destruction when he designs the government of San Lorenzo.  In addition, the Bokonists practice of Boko-maru, and if the world is going to end in total self destruction and ruin, then people will die, no matter how good people are and what religion people believe.

The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson is about boy crazy sixteen year old Sojourner, known as Scotch to her friends becuase of her "hot" dancing, living in Toronto, Canada. She had to switch school a couple times due to bullying and people calling her a "slut", but now her life seemed to be going quite well . Her mother, who is a psycologist, is black, and her strict father is white, which always bothered Scotch because she never felt like she was black nor white. However her brother, who is a rapper, always considered himself as black and is a lot darker than Scotch. Scotch had a skin condition, although it was never serious, where black stuff grew on her skin; she tryed to not let this bother her.

I realized that the author did not order her information from first events to the end events but a quite random order, which is something I’ve never done because I believe it is just common sense to order information chronologically which I found surprising that the author would do that, she still managed to get her points across and have me understand but I think it would have been more efficient if the author had her information in chronological

William Faulkner’s novel, The Sound and the Fury, exemplifies the very meaning of an internal conflict between order and chaos through the forlorn and tragic character, Quentin Compson. Although Quentin is displayed with an outward appearance that can be described as orderly, it is apparent through his chaotic thoughts that he is overwhelmed by his ardent views on the Compson family’s honor, which was destroyed when Caddy lost her virginity.

Our existence can be illustrated by envisioning a painter who is fabricating a painting. As the painter begins to use the soft brush, its thistles with each movement construct systems and subsystems that are elaborately woven together to display biased perception of ourselves. Consequently, a misguided stroke may alter an exceptional piece of art turning it into a catastrophe. Regrettably, this metaphor unveils the misfortune that can occur in the lives of numerous individuals. Comparatively, like the painter who can be consumed by adversity, a victim of domestic violence with one misstep can eradicate his/her own life.

Slaughterhouse-Five, a novel written by Kurt Vonnegut, tells the story of the devastating effects of war on a man, Billy Pilgrim, who joins the army fight in World War II. The semi-autobiographical novel sheds light on one of history’s most tragic, yet rarely spoken of events, the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany.

More and more people have seemed to come to accepting their current status or standard of living, rejecting and avoiding changes that would break this balance their comfort zones. Some are afraid to lose face, lose control, whereas others may encounter self-doubt, convincing themselves way before they even try. Fight Club, a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, tells a story of a man who finds his identity in society and in life after experiencing a series of disastrous events. The message that the author conveys is to be more accepting of chaos, and things we see as disastrous because only through those things we can be redeemed and change. Even though chaos and disasters possess the power to influence and change a person, I believe that it can be unrealistic