Cat's Cradle
...dirt, so to speak, on nearly every character introduced, but never openly announcing what’s next. This insight into characters gives them a sense of being real, and their human qualities and faults make the characters more appealing to the reader. Vonnegut lets us feel raw emotion and take a look inside each character’s mindset. He also strings all of the characters together in a such a way that at some point, every character has something to do with any other character. For example, Dr. Asa Breed had an affair with Mrs. Hoenikker before she had met her husband. Dr. Breed then became Dr. Hoenikker’s superior in the Research Lab, thus tainting their opinions of each other as men rather than scientists. The satire used throughout the story is a way for the characters to voice their stance on an issue in a passive way. The humor also keeps the reader from becoming bored with the events. The satire sheds light on subjects that are not at all humorous, such as Dr. Hoenikker’s inventions of the atomic bomb and ice-nine. Vonnegut uses humor in a human way, touching on things that we are all aware of, ...