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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wait to get home to take a nice shower. It was a nice place to sit around and clear my mind. In the middle of September‚ my mother and I would go to the store to buy tons of food for hunting trip. At last‚ after being at the store for hours‚ we would be on our way to meet my dad and my brothers. Hunting trip was the highlight of my year. For five years‚ we would go to the exact same campsite. At this campsite‚ the air was fresh‚ the sun was out‚ and all I could hear was the beautiful
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sickness. We were going to Missouri to see how my dad’s parents were doing. About an hour before we made it to their house we had to stop for gas and food. The gas station was empty and showed no signs of life. Just in case‚ I grabbed a pistol and hunting knife and my dad grabbed the shotgun and the machete. My mom waited in the car with the little ones like always. I opened the gas station door for my dad and walked in after him. Slowly realizing what we walked into‚ we quickly tried to retreat
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After Dana hurt Roy he had to stay home all weekend to make sure he was okay. Before going back to school he was nervous about seeing Dana again although he was not at school. When Garrett saw Roy at school he told him that everyone was talking about what he did to Dana and that they think he is a tough guy. Roy asked Garrett who the tall girl with the red glasses is‚ and he said that her name is Beatrice Leep‚ she is a major soccer jock‚ has a major attitude and is so tough that she broke the collarbone
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Coming Of Age One day i was at the playground i was around 4‚ it was a warm sunny day my mom and aunt wanted to take me and my cousin to the park so we were happy because at this point the park was fun to me. We started to walk it was only a 2 minute walk to the park so it wasn’t too bad when we got to the park we my mom and aunt sat on a bench about 10 ft away from the swings. Me and my cousin started to play tag i was it first eventually 2 other kids started to play‚ i was first it and i started
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One day on Christmas break my mom and I went to the store and we got food for Christmas. We went to many different stores. First we went to the PX to get mac and cheese‚ ham‚ and pies. Then we went to Walmart to get greens and something that I don’t know the name of it but it looks like an onion. Then we went to family dollar to get soap for my sisters to wash the dishes. When we got home I went to get my sisters so they can help me and my mom with the bags so they can eat lunch. After that my
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Marijuana is a powerful addictive drug‚ it will change your life from the first time you use it. It has no beneficial qualities for your health at any circumstance. Or at least‚ that was what I was informed from the authorities in my life till I was seventeen. I vowed to never speak to any of my friends if I heard of them using the abomination of a plant. I did just that on two different occasions and they were friends I had since elementary school. However‚ when I was seventeen I learned the true
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Once upon a time‚ in the sunken city of Atlantis‚ there was a well known mathematician. This mathematician was a fish though‚ and was famous for discovering the pike-thagorean theorem. Now‚ this fish was facing the lowly task of tutoring a bunch of young fish in how to be successful in algaebra. Little did he know‚ he was being watched by an evil force as he went about this task. While the teacher taught his students about pollock-nomials‚ he was unaware that nearby‚ a waterproof robot bigger than
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These lollisticks had been ice-lollies from the store and I washed them in the kitchen myself with ‘Bristling Shine’ washing-up liquid under a warm tap(I have no way to tell the temperature) pouring at forty percent capacity( I measured this the day before I was standing near the rectangle of brown earth. I used my Transformers lunch box to hold the water. First I held the lunch box under a switched off hot tap so that I could tell that the tap did switch off and that there were no drips even though
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For 39 years I have hated my body‚ I was never skinny enough‚ toned enough‚ tall enough‚ and too curvy and why do I have to have such ginormous breast and what my family have dubbed “Granny’s arse?” Yet for all the self-loathing that I have done‚ this body‚ this vehicle has been with me through beatings‚ abuse‚ the beginning of cervical cancer and carried and birthed two children. This body‚ that is the garden to my soul allows me to mould myself to the love of my life and feel his skin against
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