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Quote A from Kurt Vonnegut’s story “EPICAC” shows the narrator reading through EPICAC’s final message that was left behind before EPICAC killed himself. EPICAC, a machine, had learned that he was unable to be with his love Pat because he is a machine and that is his fate. This devastates EPICAC, causing him to commit suicide by short-circuiting himself. The author anthropomorphizes EPICAC to make readers empathize with and admire EPICAC.
Before EPICAC kills himself, he leaves a message that reads, “I don’t want to be a machine … so Pat will love me. But fate has made me a machine.” By teaching EPICAC concepts like fate and love, the narrator has effectively anthropomorphized EPICAC. Fate and love are very abstract concepts that are characteristically
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