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    Kurt Vonnegut's 'EPICAC'

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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

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    Slaughterhouse Five is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut who expresses his thoughts on antiwar‚ social issues‚ and life through the character Billy Pilgrim and others. Vonnegut uses many examples of social commentary to show the audience the depth of society from an opposing standpoint. In the novel Slaughterhouse five‚ Vonnegut uses free will to contradict the thought of humans being able to change the future or for it to be predestined. Free will is the power of acting without the constraint of necessity

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    of Death In Slaughterhouse Five‚ Kurt Vonnegut uses irony to demonstrate the destructiveness and depreciations of war. Vonnegut incorporated many cases of irony in his book‚ and they overall enhance the meaning throughout the passage. One of the prime situations of irony took place with Edgar Derby. This poor man had to endure suffering and pain during the course of the war and the firebombing‚ only to be executed in the end for a meaningless little crime. Vonnegut reveals a bit of this situation

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    “‘Schlachthof-fünf’ Schlachthof meant slaughterhouse. Fünf was good old five”(Vonnegut 153). In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five‚ the main character throughout the book is “unstuck in time”. The author tells readers the character’s life out order‚ basically readers go wherever the character goes in time. To write this book as an interesting and unique kind of war book without glamorizing the war‚ based on his experiences Vonnegut chose to write about the effects of war on soldiers but mostly himself

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    Deer in the Works Deer in the Works is a Cold War era short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It first appeared in Esquire in April‚ 1955‚ and was anthologized in Welcome to the Monkey House. It revolves around David Potter‚ a paper owner who finds new work as a a publicity writer at the mammoth Ilium Works because of financial strain who consequently leaves upon viewing the dehumanisation and quantification of human life. Vonnegut’s experiences as a soldier and prisoner of war‚ coupled with his anti-authoritarian

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    "If I tried to get away with it‚ then other people ’d get away with it-and soon we ’d be right back to the dark ages again…" This statement by George Bergeron sums up Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ’s short story in one line. "Harrison Bergeron" is a satirical story of a futuristic United States in the year 2081‚ where all individuals are made equal regardless of what their natural born characteristics were. In order to achieve this society needed to be made equal‚ and controlled. "Harrison Bergeron" is a suitable

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    The novel Slaughterhouse Five written by Kurt Vonnegut is a book about the bombing of Dresden‚ Germany during World War II. However‚ this novel is far from the conventional war story‚ as author Kurt Vonnegut bends and breaks the standard rules of storytelling. As the bombing of Dresden was far from conventional Vonnegut wrote an unconventional story to go along with it. The novel is not written in chronological order and skips around to different times. Since the main character Billy Pilgrim is

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    governmental control? Can people abolish their foolish hatred of differences in race‚ economic status‚ colors‚ religions‚ or sexual orientation? Can utopia be attained if we put an end to all these hatreds? In the satire‚ “Harrison Bergeron”‚ Kurt Vonnegut expresses his theme of the dysfunctional government of utopia through his effective use of simile‚ irony‚ and symbolism. In the story‚ Harrison’s father George was exceptionally intelligent and so he was forced to wear an earpiece that would interrupts

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    Life is filled with pleasures and uncertainties. We have ups and downs‚ and enjoy the better days because we have survived the worst. The “Fisherman" by Kurt Brown‚ tells a tale of a man fishing every day in hopes of catching something beyond him. This poem represents our lives and is a direct metaphor of the duality of success and failure. Our lives can relate to this poem because there comes a time in our lives‚ when we realize the world has so much to offer us. In order to see and feel the

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    memorable. In most stories‚ movies‚ and songs‚ the creator of said work‚ uses figurative language to help create description that he would be unable to when using just regular language. The stories The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst‚ Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut‚ and The Gift of the Magi

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