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Vonnegut's Evaluation Of Literature
Would you want your story banned just because your freely releasing your ideas? This happend to Vonnegut by Drake High School “I am very real”. Vonnegut believes literature is important because it circulates ideas freely not just one person's. I agree with Vonnegut’s evaluation of literature because you shouldn’t just have one person's ideas since everybody has ideas. As Vonnegut believed literature should be a circulation of ideas because it opens up many more ideas rather than just one.
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