1. cats cradle
Vonnegut uses these two separate, and very different, settings to get his point across. ... Included in Tralfamadore and the Tralfamadorians is a sub-theme - fatalism. ... When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into materials .The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. ... The entire piecing together of the story is unique like no other. ... It is as if Vonnegut has ta...
Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write about the bombing of Dresden. He was never able to write the book. When he thinks about Dresden's place in his memory, he always recalls two things: a dirty limerick about a man whose penis has let him down, and "My Name is Yon Yonson," a song which has no ending. ...