it seemed like Vonnegut wrote cats cradle to show how the world ca lead to their own destruction without being aware of what they are doing..just like when Angela used ice nine to get her husband and Newt used ice nine for a vacation and Frank also used it to benifit himself..nobody thought of the outcome and they eventually led to the worlds downfall( Destruction)
This story is a critique of how society looks for the easiest way out of things such as buying happiness. It also critiques the capitialist society and how government control may not be such a bad thing.
Slaughterhouse-Five was written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
It depends on what story you are talking about. and it is whatever makes you giggle uncontrollably in public.
His novel Cat's Cradle has been banned in some places.
One of the primary themes is that, even in death, the world goes on, hence the recurring phrase in the book: "So it goes." Other major themes include: the destruction of war as well as the loss of free will.
Vonnegut died at the age of 84 on April 11, 2007, in Manhattan after a fall at his Manhattan home several weeks prior resulted in irreversible brain injuries.
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Harrison was extraordinary his entire life, but, in my opinion, when he was fourteen the "Handicapper General" realized that none of the handicaps available would work on him. That is why Harrison was imprisoned when he was fourteen. As far as why Vonnegut chose the age of fourteen, probably due to that is when most people start to discover who they are and what they want to become. It could also be relevent to the author's life.
"Adam" is a short story in Vonnegut's collection entitled Welcome to the Monkey House. It is the story of a man named Heinz Knechtmann whose wife is giving birth to a son. Knechtmann is overcome with joy at the birth of his son, which he sees as the continuation of his entire family that has been annihilated in the holocaust. His joy is contrasted by another man who has not suffered in the way he has. This man is also having a child but views it as an ordinary fact of life and not as the miracle Knechtmann sees it as.
It is :
A) An ad slogan used by the cereal Wheaties since 1927.
B) A 1973 novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (aka Goodbye, Blue Monday)
C) The 1999 Bruce Willis comedy movie based on the Vonnegut book
Kurt Vonnegut won his Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for writting Slaughterhouse-Five
Sorry pal, Vonnegut has never won the Pulitzer Prize. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 was:
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)
It is a 8'x64' painting created by Rabo Karabekian. It is done on the same canvas as his previous work that disintegrated due to poor paint quality. It is called "Now it's the Woman's time"
Kurt Vonnegut was in the Battle of the Bulge. He was fighting against the Germans, until he was captured and imprisoned by the Germans. He was placed with his fellow American prisoners in a warehouse that had been a meat-packing facility and storage locker before the war. This warehouse was marked with "Schlachtlog-funf" or "Slaughterhouse-Five."