The Hyperbole In The Story Of The Truck Driver

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Kilgore Trout is a famous science fiction writer. He has many things in his mind and creates the new and wonderful story for the truck driver. Now his turn has changed towards to the anti-conservation story called “Gilgongo”. Gilgongo means Extinct. In Gilgongo many creatures are growing. But the author in this situation says that this place is suitable to cultivate many animals. This is one of the most interesting stories narrated to the truck driver by Trout. A man arranges a party about the extinct animals, and he serves a plate to all the party members on which a picture is painted the word “Gilgongo”. The creation of earth is narrated as: People were glad that the bears were Gilgongo, because there were too many species on the planet already, and new ones were coming into being almost every hour. There was no way anybody could prepare for the bewildering diversity of creatures and plants he was likely to encounter. The people were doing their best to cut down on the number of species, so that life could be more predictable. Nature was to creative for them. (89) Then their topic is changed to politics. But Kilgore Trout is not interested in politics. Kilgore makes a satire on the American President by referring him as optimistic chimpanzee. Here the author uses the hyperbole to show the status of the American President. …show more content…

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