How Does Vonnegut Dehumanize

Mechanism in Breakfast of Champions When Vonnegut wrote the novel “Breakfast of Champions” it was a delicate time in our country and society, a lot of things were happening. Vonnegut uses racism, sex, and the simple and quite random drawings to dehumanize humans in his novel. Back when the book was written these issues were “normal”. For example to call African Americans a “Nigger”,ect. In his novel he succeeded using those themes to deprive a human from their actual qualities as a whole. For Vonnegut racism was one of the motifs typically easy to dehumanize a person. African Americans were used to being referred to as “Niggers”, that was their normal. There could be millions after millions of stories of the hate white people had towards African Americans. African American are downgraded as dirty, lazy, dumb and many other slures. “The white men wouldn’t do it either, of course. They called it women’s work, and

Sex is another exposed motif he used. Vonnegut seems to say that sex is something humans charish. “Oh, Mr. Trout...teach us to sing and dance and laugh and cry. We’ve tried to survive so long on money and sex and envy and real estate and football and basketball and automobiles and television and and alcohol -- on sawdust and broken glass.” In reality sex is just something humans use to recreate another human being, it’s how we continue to keep the human species alive. Vonnegut tried to describe sex as human sexual urges to break us down piece by piece and make us feel less, mechanical, and routinized. He compares people to nothing more than a “fucking machine”. (Vonnegut) In the novel the narrator explains how Kilgore Trout’s work is filled for pornographic book and magazines. All his work is highlighted in public, which advertise “Wide Open Beavers Inside”. (Vonnegut) “It fills such a need, this machine,” said Trout of a film projector in an adult theater,”and it’s so easy to operate.”