Olivia Townsend
Anna James
EN 102
April 25, 2017
Kurt Vonnegut: How a Dysfunction Life Makes for Excellent Works of Literature
What makes for a good writer? For many, it’s a combination of creativity, vision, and plenty of passion. But to be critically acclaimed and widely known calls for much more. All renown writers have had some experience, or many which, that has altered their views of the world and directly impacted their writings. Kurt Vonnegut is no exception to this. He had many tragic events occur in his life and had been on the doorstep with Death both naturally and self-inflicted. Vonnegut’s life occurrences and his coping with them, bleed into his literature; everything from his experience as a prisoner of war, to the tragic death
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The characters, setting, themes, style, point of view, form and structure are impressively explained. He even notes parts of the story in relation to Vonnegut’s perspective and historically accurate events. William Bly was once the assistant professor of drama and New York University; a scholarly and accredited higher education school. Even though this particular Barron Book Note was published in 1985, it is still a viable source of information. Just a small example of its intellectual integrity would be his analysis of Vonnegut’s reoccurring characters and how they are influenced in relation to his own life …show more content…
In doing so, she refers to letters between the two of them as he was enlisted in the Army and while he was stationed waiting on his discharge. Strand is an accomplished writer for the New Yorker. Not only this, but she also wrote the book, The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction on the House of Magic”. The writer has a clear knowledge of Kurt and of his family. A substantial portion of this article is creditable and useful is how Vonnegut’s life influenced his writing. Either good or bad, is to be determined but the influential state is