Cat's Cradle Chs. 1-7

Cat's Cradle clearly has postmodernism ideas in it. Vonnegut's writing style shows the characters craziness with his random hops from topic to topic.

Bokonism is a major factor of the book that seems to have postmocdernist ideas. How can a religion that outwardly states that it is false, that there is no truth to it an have followers. Bokonists know that what they believe in is made up of lies, yet they can not help but live/follow its rules. This reflects the idea of the postmodern idea of holding two contradictive thoughts at once.

Felix Hoeniker and John definitly bleed postmodernism. Felix is clearly indiffernet to any morals that the rest of us seem to have. For example when the topic of sin comes up, Felix replies "what is sin?" To judge right from wrong, one must be able to have some type of morals, but Felix does not have this. Postmodernism has a notion that there is no such thing as absolute truth; this goes with Felix's negation towards any morals.

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