Introduced to a world full of depression and economic collapse, Kurt Vonnegut was able to overcome sorrow because of his writing while also having a major influence in literature. In today’s world, people experience depression so difficult to fight through because they lack a source of output to “get the crap out”. In terms of Kurt Vonnegut, his writing was his output. The output writing that Vonnegut displayed produced many influential works of literature including: Cat’s Cradle, Player Piano, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse-Five, Mother Night, and so on. Prior to the world economy crash in the 1930s, Vonnegut’s family was incredibly wealthy but following the Depression their wealth was seemingly converted into sadness and sorrow. Vonnegut’s father, Kurt Vonnegut Sr., owned an architectural business that was going bankrupt and soon after that, all his hope in life …show more content…
The firebombing of Dresden was perhaps the most influential event in Vonnegut’s life. The reality that presented itself to Vonnegut in the form of the firebombing changed the course of Vonnegut’s life. Not only that but it also morphed his perspective on war. The amusing part of Vonnegut’s writing was the way in which he got his point across. Following the war, Vonnegut evolved into a unique writer with wit and comedy with a darker tone. His morals were not merely religion but they were a way of life deriving from his interior that gutted and scratched until he finally let out as what we now know as his works of literature. Vonnegut let out what was most crucial in his fight against depression but the struggle to let it out was not the only thing that held him from expressing some of his left ideas. His father helped influence his left perspective but it was also vital for Vonnegut to realize his own ideas to combine them with what he grew up knowing to be