Book Report: Cat's Cradle
The title of this book is Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and it is a genre known as dark satire. This book has a first-person major perspective, through the eyes of an author by the name of Jonah, who wanted to write a biography on the father of the nuclear bomb, Felix Hoenikker. But while he was doing his research, he stumbled upon a weird adventure which led him into becoming the President of the country San Lorenzo. Along the way, we see how a religion called Bokonon affected the behavior of several characters. Not only so, but we see how man's naturally tendency of selfishness and madness would end up as their own demise and sadness. Personally, I enjoyed this book since it used a very interesting and clever way to show man's true nature. The plot was quite enjoyable just as well, along with its unique humour.
So I would definitely recommend this book to anybody.
The story took place in several different cities, but there are two main places in which Jonah was most of the time; the country of San Lorenzo and the town of Ilium, New York. Ilium was an infinitesimal town, a place where everyone knew each other, the type of place where you can get from one end to another on a bicycle in no time. The only problem though was that it had a gloomy atmosphere to it. It wasn't like any normal small town, people do not gossip about one another, in fact, there was hardly any communication among civilians at all. They had their own privacy and didn't like sharing anything with anyone. In some sense, they seem to dislike each others. Each family seemed to be isolated from each other, just like the Hoenikker...
Great Essay... but..
This is a great Essay But I think you should have collected your thoughts before writing this.
Cuz the order of which you wrote this in, was off. You went from telling the reader
: you thoughts of the book, The Setting/Background, The jist of the book, Your thoughts of the book again, The Main characters personality, & trail & tribulations in the story, The story's conflict, your views of the story's theme, to the conclusion.
It was different reading an essay in this format in which you wrote it in.
Also Your train of thought changed alot while you were writing it in the beginning, you jumped from idea to idea.
Though When finished, This Book is really amazing. Im going to Read this book first- hand, & Tell other people to read it as well. The infomation you do give is great, your Views on the main theme is outstanding.
And your Analysis on when this story took place is a real good observation. I can tell that this book made an impacked on you.
Damn.. im speechless on the authors abilty here.
Overall - Great essay
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