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Imagine the happiness you would feel when you have your first child. Your heart swells with love for this newborn, but in the back of your head you know a loved one will have to die for this baby to have a chance to live. That’s what author Kurt Vannegut did in his short story “2BR02B”. In this story everything bad that has ever been in this world is gone. Everything seems perfect until someone has to volunteer to die in order to let a newborn live. Which begs the question is there such a thing as perfect? Vannegut protrays in the story the theme of there is no such thing as perfect. The first sentence of the story is “Everything was perfectly swell.” The key word here is was. Was is a past-tense. The author used the word was because nothing
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