Kurt Vonnegut uses Cat's Cradle to satire the absurdity of all adult games, all mad pursuits of scientific knowledge and material progress all isms..All relentless hankering after trusts and the futility of all wars has just aggravated the ecological crisis disturbing all ecosystem... Elaborate this question. I need the answer of this question for my final term

Kurt Vonnegut uses Cat's Cradle to create a satire about the absurdity of life and human's pursuit of scientific knowledge and material progress in different ways.

His use of satire is exemplified by the symbolism of the cat's cradle. The cat's cradle is a game that is played with strings and Dr. Hoenikker allegedly played it the day the atomic bomb was dropped instead of retrospection about what he helped invent destroying lots of lives.

The cat's cradle represents the complexity of humans and make a mockery of humans trying to make sense of everything.

Vonnegut also used the set up of the book Cat's Cradle to dispel the notion of how meaningful civilization is. The book can be considered as a book that is talking about the end of the world. By foreshadowing death and the helplessness of humans to prevent death and also the ability to bring death, it shows that the human search for meaning is thus fruitless and misguided.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

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