Galapagos

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A. After I read Galapagos, I thought it was a good story. It was a little

different from other novels I have read in that the author, Kurt Vonnegut, had a

different style than most other authors. I liked how he made comments about humans'

"big brains" that always gave them foolish or reckless ideas that almost always had

negative results. The way he showed how a world changed because people no longer

thought that paper money was valuable provoked many thoughts about how something

like that could actually happen.

B. I saw myself a few times throughout the book. For example, I saw myself in

Mandarax; always a source of some information, none of which is of use to most people.

Mandarax would always have something to say under any circumstance, but usually

what it said had nothing to do with what was going on. Much like an internet search

engine, you give it a bit of information and in return you get a whole lot of nothing. I also

saw myself in Leon Trout. When the blue tunnel into the afterlife came for him, he didn't

want to go until he found out what happened to the people on the ship. Once I s


-He forgot about some minor details that he left out till the end. There

the last people alive on Earth after everyone else died. The name of the islands also

alive and well. The combination of the two is where everyone wants to be. Think twice

work and be good. She worked hard to become good in her craft, ikebana. Her purpose in

F. The society of the book was the same as society is today. Except for the fact

my story 'A Second Noah's Ark.'"



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Approximate Pages = 20 (250 words per page double spaced)

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