|
Kurt Vonnegut, analytically commended author of numerous best-selling novels, utilizes self-expression and psychosomatic management to emphasize to the reader his beliefs and ideas isolated within the main framework of Cats Cradle. ... Cats Cradle deals with atomic scientists, ugly Americans, gorgeous sex queens, vengeful midgets, Caribbean dictators, undertakers, Hoosiers, a new way of making love, ice-nine, Bokonism, the end of the world . ...
Cats Cradle is made up of a series of very direct, and ostensibly simple sentences, that form an astoundingly complex novel. Cats Cradle, like most of Vonnegut’s novels, is not very wordy. ... The theme of the cats cradle is used throughout the novel to represent many of the truths, as viewed by Vonnegut that are found in society. A cats cradle is essentially a game played by all ages and almost all nationalities; "Even the Eskimos know it"(114). ... It symbolically and historically is used to represent many things, like stories, or figures like the one figure which is its name sake, the cats cradle.
Approximate Word count = 842
Approximate Pages = 3.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
|
|
