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Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut Pdf Cat's cradle kurt vonnegut pdf Continue 1963 novel by Kurt Vonnegt This article is about kurt vonnegt's novel. For a string image, see Cat Cradle. For other uses, see Cat Cradle (disambiguation). Ice-nine will redirect here. For other uses see Ice-nine (disambiguation). Cat Cradle First Edition hardback coverAuthorKurt VonnegutOriginal titleCat's CradleCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishGenreSatire/Sci fictionPublisherHolt, Rinehart and WinstonPublication date1963Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)Pages304ISBN0-385-33348-XOCLC40067116Preceded byMother Night Followed by God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Cat Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with sci-fi elements by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegt's fourth novel, was first published in 1963, exploring and satirizing issues of science, technology, the purpose of religion, and the arms race, often using black humor. After rejecting his original job in 1947, the University of Chicago awarded Vonnegut his master's degree in anthropology in 1971 for cradle cats. [1] [2] A review of The Backgrounds of a First-person everyman narrator, a professional writer introduces himself as Jonah (but apparently called John), frames the plot as a flashback. In the mid-20th century, the plot revolved around the time he planned to write a book called The Day the World Ended about what important Americans did on the day of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima. He also makes meaningful as well as sarcastic passages and feelings from a special religious script known as the Book of Bokonon. The events of the novel appeared to occur before the narrator was transformed into his current religion, Bokononism. Plot summary When researching for his upcoming book, the narrator travels to the Ilium, New York, the hometown of the late Felix Hoenikker, co-creator of the atomic bomb and nobel laureate physicist, to interview Hoenikker's children, collaborators and other acquaintances. There he learns about a substance called ice-nine, created for military use by Hoenikker and now presumably held by his three adult children. Ice-nine is an alternative water structure that is solid at room temperature and becomes a seed crystal in contact with any ordinary liquid water, causing liquid water to immediately become more ice- nine. Among some strange unwinding in the Ilium, the narrator meets Hoenniker's younger son, a dwarf named Newt, who recounts that his father did nothing more than play the string game cat cradle when the first bomb was launched. Finally, the magazine's role takes the narrator to the (fictional) Caribbean island of San Lorenzo, one of the poorest countries on Earth. On a plane ride, the narrator is surprised to see Newt and also meets with the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to San Lorenzo, who provides a comprehensive guide to the unusual San Lorenzo and history. The guide describes a locally influential semi-parody religious movement called Bokononism, which combines disrespectful, nihilistic and cynical observations about life and God's people; emphasis on coincidences and serendipity; both thoughtful and funny pronouncements and rituals to the holy text called The Book of Bokonon. Bokonon, the religion's founder, was a former leader of the island who created Bokononism as part of a utopian project to give people purpose and community in the face of the island's insuspicious poverty and squalor. As a deliberate attempt to give Bokononism a seductive sense of forbidden glamour, religion is nominally forbidden (forcing Bokonon to live in hiding in the jungle) by the nominally Christian government of its dictator, Papa Monzano, who threatens all opposition with an impalement on the big hook. Intrigued by Bokononism, the narrator later derives the strange reality that almost all residents of San Lorenzo, even including Papa Monzano, practice in secret, and so religious persecution by hook is indeed rare. At San Lorenzo, passengers on the plane are greeted by Papa Monzano; his beautiful adoptive daughter Mona, who the narrator intensely longs for; and a crowd of about five thousand San Lorenzans. Monzano is ill with cancer and wants his successor to be Frank Hoenikker: Monzano's personal bodyguard and, coincidentally, Felix Hoenikker's second son. However, Frank, uncomfortable with the manager, confronts the narrator in private and somewhat accidentally offers him the presidency. Startled at first, the narrator reluctantly accepts after being promised a beautiful Mona for his bride. Newt repeats the idea of cradding a cat, which means that the game, with its invisible cat, is a suitable symbol for the nonsense and meaninglessness of life. Soon after, a handcuffed Papa Monzano commits suicide by swallowing ice-nine, whereupon his corpse immediately turns into solid ice. Frank Hoenikker admits that he once gave Monzano a fragment of ice-nine, and the Hoenikkers explain that when they were young their father would give them hints about the existence of ice-nine while experimenting with him in the kitchen. After his father's death, they collected pieces of cloth in a thermos and have kept them ever since. The festivities for the narrator's presidential inauguration begin, but during an air show conducted by San Lorenzo fighter jets, one of the jets malfunctions and crashes into the seaside palace, what Monzano's still-frozen body fall into the sea. Immediately, all the water in the world's seas, rivers and groundwater turns into solid ice-nine. Freezing the world's oceans will immediately cause violent tornadoes to ravage earth, but the narrator manages to escape with Monoa to a secret bunker beneath the palace. When the initial storms recede after several appear. Exploring the island for survivors, they discover the mass grave where all the surviving San Lorenzans committed suicide by touching the ice-nine from the ground to the mouth on the face of bokonon's advice, which left a note of explanation. Displaying a mix of sadness for his people and resigned amusement, Mona immediately follows suit and dies. The horrified narrator is discovered by several other survivors, including Newt and Frank Hoenikker, and lives with them in a cave for several months during which he writes the contents of the book. Driving through the barren wasteland one day, he spots Bokonon himself, contemplating what the last words of Bokonon's books should be. Bokonon states that if he were younger, he would place a book on human stupidity atop the highest mountain of San Lorenzo, swallow ice-nine, and die while thumbing his nose at God. Themes Many of Vonnegut's recurring themes predominate in the Cat Cradle, especially the issues of free lychee and human relationship to technology. [3] The first is embodied in the creation of Bokononism, an artificial religion created to make life to the toutable beleaguered inhabitants of San Lorenzo through the acceptance and joy of the inevitability of everything that happens. This demonstrates the development and use of ice-nine, which is conceived with indifference but is misused for disastrous ends. Speaking in 1969 to the American Physical Society, Vonnegut describes the inspiration behind ice-nine and its creator as a type of old-fashioned scientist who has no interest in humans and draws connections with nuclear weapons. [4] More topical, Cat Cradle takes the threat of nuclear destruction in the Cold War as a major theme. The Cuban missile crisis, in which world powers clashed around a small Caribbean island to bring the world to the brink of mutual destruction, occurred in 1962 and much of the novel can be considered allegorical. [5] Style Like most of Vonnegut's work, irony, black humor and parody are used heavily all the time. The cat cradle, despite its relatively short length, contains 127 discreet chapters. Vonnegut himself claimed that his books are basically mosaics made up of a lot of small chips... and every chip is a joke. [3] Background after World War II, Kurt Vonnegut worked in the public relations department for general electric research company. GE hired scientists and let them do pure research, and its job was to interview these scientists and find good stories about their research. Vonnegut believed that older scientists were indifferent about ways their discoveries could be used. Nobel Prize-winning chemist Irving Langmuir, who worked with Vonnegut Bernard's older brother at GE, became a model for Dr Felix Hoenikker. Vonnegut said in an interview with The Nation that he was totally indifferent to uses that could be made of truth dug out of the rock and handed out who he was around, but every truth he found was beautiful in his own right, and he didn't give a damn about who got it on. [6] Dr. Felix Hoenikker's invention of ice-nine was similar in name to only ice IX. Langmuir worked on sowing ice crystals to reduce or increase rain or storms. [7] [8] [9] Setting the position of the Cradle of San LorenzozaGeneral location San LorenzoFlag from San LorenzoCreated byKurt VonnegutGenreSatireInformationTypeDictatorshipRulerPapa MonzanoNotable locationsBol Ivar (capital)Another name(s)Republic of San LorenzoAnthemSan Lorenzan National AnthemLanguage (s)San Lorenzan dialect EnglishCurrencyCorporal The Republic of San Lorenzo is a fictional country where much of the second half of the book takes place. San Lorenzo is a small, rocky island nation located in the Caribbean Sea, located in relative proximity to Puerto Rico. San Lorenzo has only one city, its seaside capital bolivar. The country's form of government is a dictatorship, under the reign of the perennial President Papa Monzano, who is a fierce ally of the United States and a fierce opponent of communism. There is no legislator. The San Lorenzo infrastructure is described as dilapidated, consisting of worn-out buildings, dusty roads, impoverished populations, and having only one car taxi running across the country.
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