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Kurt Vonnegut's Writing At Its Finest

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Writing at Its Finest It is 12 am and you still have to finish that one really important piece of writing. Finally, it’s completed and you realize it is not anywhere near what you imagined it to be. This is an example of the struggle that most writers of all ages face. However, by implementing the effective techniques of a great author, many writers of all skill levels can avoid this headache. Great writers have special characteristics to their writing that interest readers and allow them to develop and express their ideas in the most understandable ways. The most vital features of good writing are simplicity, creativity and its ability to cater to the reader. To start, great authors are masters of keeping their writing simple and to the point. For instance, Kurt Vonnegut in his short essay How to write with style states, “Simplicity of …show more content…

For example, Kurt Vonnegut explains this as he states, “…our stylistic options as writers are neither numerous or glamorous, since our readers are bound to be such imperfect artist” (67). Again, supporting the point that the best writers are able to cater their style to any audience. Moreover, great writers in order to accommodate to multiple audiences have the ability to simplify and edit their writing to remove ambiguity. The writer Stephen King agreement to this statement can be seen in his writing as he highlights the point of editing writing to remove vagueness. This can be observed in the sentence, “…your main job is to take all the things that are not the story” (King 495). King through this sentence clearly explains to the reader his belief that the main points of a story are the most important and that anything else adds to imprecision that’s makes the text harder for readers to understand. All in all, because of the variance in reading levels among people writers must learn how to adapt allowing their message to reach a more diverse

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the idea of equality was taken to the extreme. Satire is also used to exaggerate how awful equality is to persuade readers to believe that total equality will violate human rights. Kurt Vonnegut also uses symbols such as handicaps which make everyone equal and Harrison Bergeron to display the lack of freedom present in a world of total equality.

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All writers write for an audience. Too often however, they write for the wrong audience. Most authors compose papers with the intent to amaze their boos or teacher. Others ovoid their main point, so they do not offend their readers. Papers like these are missing one crucial element, simplicity.

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The Monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charlie from Flowers for Algernon have many similarities. “People don't talk to me much anymore or kid around the way they used to. It makes the job kind of lonely”. In the sentence, Charlie explains how, as he grew smarter, everyone became afraid of him and avoided him, making him feel lonely. “You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.

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You Have Insulted Me essay by Evan Hang Kurt Vonnegut’s purpose for writing the letter, “You Have Insulted Me” is to convince the school board to change their decision through the use of rhetorical strategies, logos, pathos, and ethos. To begin, Vonnegut uses ethos to convince the school board. Vonnegut uses examples of ethos such as that he served in World War 2 and earned a purple heart to change the school board’s decision. “Every year I receive at least a dozen invitations to be the commencement speaker at colleges and high schools.” Vonnegut uses real-life, reliable information to show the school board that he is trusted by many people.

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Victorious conquerors have taken prisoners of war in conflicts across human history. The foreign prison camps of the World Wars were infamous for their cruelty. However, many people are not aware that millions of German prisoners of war were placed in hundreds of camps all across America. These prisoners had their own unique experiences that differed significantly from prisoners held in foreign POW camps. Kurt Vonnegut voices his own traumatizing prisoner of war experience through the main character of Slaughterhouse-Five.

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According to The Maker 's Eye by Donald M. Murray, there are seven elements of the writing process that we must surpass to consider ourselves an acceptable writer. Murray states, that when a competent writer review/revises his or her writing, they are typically searching for seven key elements: Subject, Audience, Form, Structure, Development, Dimensions, and Tone. (131-132). We can conclude from this that it is vital for us as writers to take into consideration all seven elements; as they are all essential for the health and satisfaction of the manuscript. For example, if we do not give attention to the audience aspect when writing are manuscript, we are not allowing our readers to take heed to our material because we fail to connect to a target

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Was Odysseus a Hero? The Odyssey is a story of a Greek hero’s journey home from war. He and his crew set sail from Troy to get home to Ithaca. They have many setbacks on their journey and in the end he loses all of his men. Odysseus has to get home in time before his wife marries another man.

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“The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal”1 is a statement that in the mouth of the American writer should sound at least victorious. However, Kurt Vonnegut in the opening line of his dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron creates a highly ironical declaration, which he later ridicules by the following story. The author who gained his fame by writing the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, describes the world supposedly equal and free, but entirely bound by the laws that command the lives of people. That describes also fairly well the second short story 2 B R 0 2 B, which title refers to the famous phrase “to be or not to be”2 from William Shakespeare 's Hamlet, as mentioned in the text, “the trick telephone number that people who didn 't

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Kurt Vonnegut was an American author who is best known for his satirical novels, that use elements of science fiction and fantasy to portray 20th century civilization. Satire is a technique used by writers to expose and criticize the corruption of an individual or society by using humor, irony, and exaggeration. Kurt Vonnegut’s writings are not only influenced by his time spent in the war but also his humanism views on the world. Through Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle, Vonnegut not only portrays the human nature of scientists, followers of religion, country leaders, and everyday citizens as being greedy and selfish, but also shows how life is taken for granted and how easily mankind can be destroyed by humans. Kurt Vonnegut’s background not only influences his writings, but how he views the world.

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This chapter can help young writers in English class with their papers in many different ways. For instance, Trimble gives examples on what a veteran writer does in order to make their writing interesting. He also gives out techniques on how you can get a reader’s attention or how you can fix your writing to make it readable instead of having nonsense. What makes this difficult for me as a writer is that I write what ever comes to my mind and it will not make sense. Another thing that makes it difficult for me as a writer is that I am not good at getting the readers attention and having him hooked on to my work.

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Kurt Vonnegut author of slaughterhouse five, in the 1985 essay “How to Write with Style,” makes observations and recommendations for infusing personality into your work. It begins by defining "elements of style" as the unique personal qualities that you show to the reader. Vonnegut then goes on to make an argument on why we should improve our writing style. To which he says it's out of sign of respect for the reader. Basically not putting effort into your writing will make the reader will think that you care little of them.

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As I was reading Melissa Duffy’s “Inspiration, and Craig Vetter’s “Bonehead Writing,” I found myself connecting with Vetter’s paper more than Duffy’s. I found that the presentation in “Bonehead Writing” to capture my attention, and that Vetter’s feelings about writing was similar to my opinion on writing. Through his wording and humor, I think Craig Vetter wrote the best essay. I find that the wording and presentation of an article or essay influences my opinion of the writer, and it affects how I receive the idea they are trying to present to me. Craig Vetter uses a blunt approach to convey his idea that writing is nearly impossible to teach, and describes writing as “A blood sport, a walk in the garden of agony every time out.”

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In fact, he states that he "tried to recreate an oral storytelling voice and craft the story in terms of a performance for a general audience" (King, 22). He does this to not only appeal to all audiences but also to get the reader involved, engaging them personally in the story much like a conversation, with the intent of

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I continued to type; I added in unnecessary symbolism and metaphors to give the illusion of a well-written paper. I was making good time, I had almost a page and a half done already, but suddenly I stopped writing. “ What next?” I had a case of writer's block, and it was bad.

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Also not leaving people wondering about what is happening makes a good piece of writing. I know when I have written something well, when I feel very confident in it. As I’m reading through it, I want to keep reading it. Also when I don’t feel the need to go back and add more words or details because I already had. That is how I know when I have written my best.

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