How Did Kurt Vonnegut Change Literature

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It’s a day that would start a series of events that would change literature forever. So it goes. November 11, 1922, Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis Indiana Edith Vonnegut gives birth to one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, he is named after his father, Kurt Vonnegut Sr. And So it goes. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was a man of many shades, …show more content…

so influential is his large repertoire of writing. Kurt wasn’t always a writer, according to family they all thought he’d be a “Jailbird” or in lifelong service to the military. They were wrong, on February 11, 1950 his first published written work titled “Report on The Barnhouse Effect” was published in Collier’s Weekly (1888-1957, 2012-2012) and had very little feedback instead of critics bashing it’s “non-structured style.” So it Goes. Vonnegut continued to write short stories while living in Gary, Indiana with his uncle who is characterized in his books Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) Hocus Pocus (1990) Jailbird (1979) Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Galapagos (1985) and Deadeye Dick (1982). In 1952 Vonnegut finished his first novel titled Utopia 14 a book in when mechanization leads to the downfall of modern humanity because of the lack of human thinking required, making the world become a droll postapocalyptic twisted “utopia” where the only jobs available is monitoring machines and servicing mass