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Comparing Vonnegut's Tomorrow And Tomorrow
In, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, the story is far in the future , where everybody is fundamentally the same. Everybody has anti-gerasone. Everybody is old, however in the same time youthful. “I wonder how quick we’ll knock off the anti-gerasone when we get Gramps’ age” (317). Amid the story, everybody is the same, and nobody needs to attempt to be somebody distinctive. Vonnegut delineates Lou and Em whole more distant family and others on Earth, could be or do anything they need, yet they decide to do likewise everybody is else is doing, and utilize the anti-gerasone. "Wouldn't you pay $5,000 to be indistinguishable from everyone else?" (330). Generally speaking, Vonnegut appears to trust that a great many people would say yes today,

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