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Literary Elements In Vonnegut's Two B. R. 2 B
In the short story, 2 B R 0 2 B, I was able to recognize the multiple examples of literary elements found within the piece. While reading the short story, the first literary element that stood out to me was imagery. Within the beginning, Vonnegut immediately sends the image of living in a ‘perfect world’ to the reader’s mind. “Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no pov-erty, no war. All diseases were conquered. So was old age”, writes Vonnegut. This example of imagery automatically paints the picture of an utopian world where nothing could go bad or be wrong. Coincidentally, this story, in my opinion, is eerie, and later on shows its underlying dystopia.
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