Vonnegut's Mother Night and Cat's Cradle

Title: Vonnegut's Mother Night and Cat's Cradle
Category: Literature / Novels | Words: 1349 | Pages: 5.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

Vonnegut's Mother Night and Cat's Cradle

Throughout Kurt Vonnegut’s writing, loneliness is often a characteristic of his major characters. Vonnegut shows how easily modern man can succumb to loneliness and how man reacts to this loneliness. In Mother Night as well as Cat’s Cradle, key characters are in a state of solitude. Howard Campbell Jr. is in a situation very similar to the three Hoenikker children, Newt, Angela, and Frank. All four of these characters had a disturbing childhood, …showed first 75 words of 1349 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1349 total…implied that he takes his own life. One can easily see the connection between Howard Campbell Jr. and the Hoenikkers. Loneliness dictates the lives of Campbell and the Hoenikkers. The roots of their solitude can be traced by to their childhoods. The extreme need to be excepted can be accredited to their loneliness. In both Mother Night and Cat’s Cradle, Vonnegut does an excellent job of showing how loneliness effects man and his actions.

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