Jeff Frahm

The second half of breakfast of champions, in my opinion, is not as humorous as the first half. I find it to be sort of dry. It does have it's moments but after reading the rest of this book I figure out that the novel was written for the sole purpose to mocking. The narrator, who we find out at the end of the novel to be Kurt Vonnegut himself, makes fun of everything. He mocks the characters, the situations they are in, politics, and so on. So in a way this novel is just one giant satire created to mock everything.

For example, he mocks that ideas or the lack of ideas can cause diseases. This develops further as the story goes on. I find this to be ridiculous which is pretty much the point of the novel, to be ridiculous. Also, Kilgore Trout throughout the story spreads the fact that he calls mirrors "leaks" and they are used to see into another universe. Well in chapter 20 he walks into the Holiday Inn hotel and finds himself surrounded by all these "leaks" and describes what he saw. He saw a bum looking old man with red eyes and his pant legs pulled up to the knees. This I find to be funny because of the ridiculous thoughts he has about this image being from another universe. This is the type of humor that I received throughout the novel. It is at some points hard to understand the humor but there are definite forms of it throughout the novel.