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2br02b Kurt Vonnegut Analysis
In the short story “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut there is this really perfect life where nothing is really bad, except if a new child is born you have to have the same number of volunteers to die. There are triplets born that do not have enough volunteers. I can claim that most people don't want to volunteer to die. My first piece of evidence was found in lines 8 and 9, “ X-rays had revealed that his wife was going to have triplets. The children would be his first. Young wehling was hunched in his chair, his head in his hands, he was rumpled…” This explains that he is sad and worried about having triplets, he knows he is going to have to find 3 volunteers to die and he wasn't expecting that. Also this means it's hard to find volunteers because

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