Jeff Frahm

Breakfast of Champions is a humerus novel about Kilgore Trout, a science-fiction novelist, and Dwayne Hoover, a well-to-do pontiac dealer. Chapter one basically just introduces to two main characters of the novel. It then goes on to tell how Dwayne ended up going to an asylum and how Kilgore became obsessed with the notion that ideas can cause disease along with curing it. Chapter two then goes on to tell the living conditions of both Dwayne and Kilgore. Instead of telling about the rest of the chapters I'll tell about the kind of humor that is used in the novel and maybe a few examples of how it is used. In chapter 5, there is really great use of satire and disruption of the social norm when Kilgore talks about trying to sleep in the movie theater when he got to New York. This is funny in and of itself but what is hilarious about it is his reasoning which was "sleeping in movie houses was the sort of thing that dirty old men do." In a way I can see a sort of sarcasm in the tone of how he says it. In chapter 7 in the bathroom of the movie houses, there was something written on the wall that said "what is the purpose of life". Kilgore wanted to respond to this, "To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool." This is funny because of his kind of use of a snarky tone.