Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
posted by Llibre/Moxley, librarians @ 1:01 PM
Monday, November 13, 2017
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The novel Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, appeals to an adolescent audience because it shows how people can forgive each other, and how the world can be cruel, but can still be held together. The novel focuses on the lonely characters Kilgore Trout, a science fiction writer who would talk to his dog about love, and Dwayne Hoover, an automobile dealer who talks to his parakeet about how the end of the world will come. Both characters, Kilgore and Dwayne, met at a cocktail lounge. Trout made a book, Now It Can Be Told, which states there is only one person with free will in the universe, while everyone else is a robot. Hoover gets offended, and is mad at Tout. Trout tells him that it was a book and it nothing in it was real. They forgive and are now going on an adult adventure. A reason in which an adolescent audience will appeal to this novel is that the novel not only talks about history, but how people in the world are so cruel and nasty to each other. In the novel, it tells the reader how people are messing up the whole world, but also how they are keeping it together. Many people these days are very selfish and only care about themselves. The novel Breakfast of Champions may have some curse words or stuff talking about pornography. This might be a reason why many have challenged this book. People also got to understand that men have a way of talking with an adult manner, which is usually talking with curse words.
In all, the novel Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut, talks about some educational stuff, history, and even how the world works, but it can also talk about bad things. These bad things may contain curse words, statements about pornagraphy, and violence, but the main reason is because people will hear these things eventually in life.
U - I have never read much Vonnegut, but your blog makes me want to try Breakfast of Champions! It is considered a classic piece of literature, and I'm glad you are stretching yourself and "thinking outside the box" by choosing it to read for this important unit. I look forward to hearing what you think by the time you get to the end of the novel. Keep reading!
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