Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle is, "Vonnegut's most highly praised novels. 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 …
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…up his theme of the pointlessness of life with the help of satire. An example of this is the religion of Bokononism. Bokononism says that that all religions (including Bokononism) are nothing but a pack of hideous lies, which should be completely ignored.
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Works Cited
Barnes and Noble. "The Synopsis." Cat's Cradle. http://coe.ilstu.edu/labschool/uhigh/english/S1Vonn/vonnpage.htm
Jr., Kurt Vonnegut. Cat's Cradle. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing: 1963.
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