The Sirens of Titan

Classical Greek myths and legends still resonate within modern society today. These myths and legends are so powerful that they still make ideal material for Hollywood studios, directors, and authors alike. Although, these stories have gone through countless adaptions, gender stereotypes are still present. The depiction of men, both mortal and immortal, in these myths and legends are of heroes, warriors, demigods, powerful gods, and fantastical creatures from the reader’s dreams or nightmares. In

Slaughterhouse Five (1969) is Kurt Vonnegut’s book on what he feels is one of the most important events in his entire life: the bombing of Dresden. Though throughout history many refer to this action taken by the U.S. Army as a successful mission to fight against the Germans n WWII, but Vonnegut sees this as a massacre killing thousands of innocent people for the sake of war. He even states “And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like “poo-tee-weet?” (24 Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut is celebrated as one of the most successful novelist in the Post-Second World War period in the America. His literary works have had varied impacts on American culture, including the use of the word “karass” amongst college students, the naming of the pop groups “Ice Nine Kills” and “The Billy Pilgrims”, and the frequent use of the term “So it goes” as written in Vonnegut’s obituary on the New York Times (Farrell, p.ix). This article examines the impacts of Vonnegut’s on his literary

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born to third-generation German American parents in the city of Indianapolis, year 1922, November 11th. While at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, Vonnegut was heavily involved with the school’s daily newspaper, the first and only daily high school newspaper in our nation. During his time at Cornell University, Vonnegut became the school paper’s senior editor. World War II then began, and so Vonnegut joined our nation’s armed forces. Mother’s Day came in 1944, and during

Troy (or Ilium), situated on the west coast of modern day Turkey, was a city-kingdom with, at the time of the events described in the Iliad (an epic poem attributed to Homer), Priam as its king. Homer was a blind, Greek poet who lived around the 8th century B.C. He is very famous as he wrote two of the most famous poems of all times. These poems were called the Iliad and the Odyssey. Homer never mentioned himself in any of his writings, though scholars suspect that he was a farmer or artisan because