cat's cradle
...rch it and know what it does and can do but not really use it. We will be the puppets of technology and are already starting to become it. Technology is being used in everybody’s lives more and more each day. Soon it will run our lives and more and the human race’s appeal starts to decrease. Also, he says that humans and their technology are becoming too power, even for the world. We have things that can kill hundreds of thousands of people at once, which is a sad thing: the atomic bomb. Ice-nine is a factor in this book that is like the destroying factor for the world. It can turn all the liquid on the face of the planet into a block of ice. He says if we won’t stop now, the world will be destroyed by our own careless and selfish selves. We should stop enhancing technology especially nuclear things and retreat to real-world life using minimal technology. If we won’t, the human race will be demolished in a matter of time when a bombing or freak experiment gets out of control. It also teaches us about human greediness. We won’t stop until we the day we die to get the best and be the best in the world. The novel was designed in series of events like all books. Same with their titles; always named for what’s going to happen in the upcoming chapter(s). The book went kind of overboard on the chapters though; it had almost 130 chapters when usually the average book has maybe 20 to 25. The author foreshadowed Mona Aamons Monzano a little, which was the person Jonah loved but was getting married to Frank. It told a little of her in the chapters before she actually came into the story. Jonah and Mona also demonstrate human greediness a little because Mona was getting married to Frank but Jonah kept pushing until he got her. It is love so I guess it’s not bad to whatever you can to get your love. But still, maybe years ago, people just let things go and didn’t try. Frank’s marriage was broken because of this. The book’s plot is pretty simple, maybe too simple. In the Literature Circle’s it was hard to put down stuff because not much happened in the book. At the end, Bokonon kind of refers back to the book Jonah was reading at the start. He said he was thinking of the last sentence for his book, The Book of Bokonon. I don’t really understand how, but Jonah got an unfinished copy or something and was reading it and all of it’s policies before Bokonon even finished. Or maybe the reference was that Jonah throughout the whole book, basically praised Bokonon and followed all of his policies; he was just a follower. Then at the end he becomes the person to finish the ending of Bokonon’s book which lays out all of the policies for Bokonism, kind of like Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Vonnegut’s book is very single dimensioned. It is simple worded but portrays a great and hidden message underneath. Mostly it’s composed of dialogue but it is mixed up betwee...