Joe Chavez

The book I chose was Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Craddle. The book revolves around the main character he identified himself as Jonah, there is no real description except that he is a male. He is an author writing a book over the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, but the topic isn't the bomb it's over one of the creators of the bomb Felix Hoenikker and how he spend his day on the day of the bomb. He is described as a different kind of a person he has a family but he is like a child depending on his daughter to take care of the whole family, the mother died. Well the humor starts off slow with more of a satirical humor on religion, Jonah refers back to the book of Bokonon in most of his daily thoughts, he also retrospects when he was christian. Bokonoism is described as a religion created on lies. There is many aspects to bokonism he intrudces many parts of it like karass which is a team because religion is split up into groups in bokonisim. I feel like he is using this made up religion to show how people that follow religion strictly sound and act ridicuolous. There are many instenses when he brings up God to a person and they clearly over react to what he has said. The next humorous component of my novel is that of the fact that the Hoenikker family is the furthest to normal that you could think of. First of all the Father he is a child but also a genious he would come in contact with something and he would focus and look at it in a different way. The oldest the daughter was described as reserved never had a boyfriend didn't have any friends and played the clairinet. The oldest son Franklin is a figure head for a communist government on an island not so far from cuba. The youngest son is a midget with a russian bride double his age. Jonah also comes into contact with collegues which lead to humorous situations, he is just trying to get information for his book and the twist and turns have lead him to meet his not so normal family.