Galapogos
Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos was written one million years ahead of the year 1986 AD. The novel was written in the narrative style of a story being told from a grandfather to a grandson. The author Kurt Vonnegut express the theme very well throughout the novel, it is presented from cover to cover: That's man's intelligence will be the downfall and destruction of the human race. That our are so called big brains drive people to go further into technology and create new weapons that will lead to the destruction of man kind. There are many quotations from the novel Galapogos that represent the theme and Vonnegut's opinion on the direction society is headed. He writes this book based on his own view and opinions of the world, what it has become and where in his eyes it is headed. He expresses his creativity, imagination and unique way of thinking in his writing of Galapogos; it's an amazing picture made by Vonnegut of what the future could turn out to be. The feeling that reader gets when reading Galapogos is that it takes place in 1986 AD, but is really being told from the future. The story begin with six or so people wanting to take a nature cruise to the Galapogos Island's, but a war breaks out at the port of Guayaqui
Vonnegut believes this to be a great thing, in his opinion humans are to smart for there own dawn good. He expresses this belief in the theme of the book Galapogos. That humans are too big brained as Vonnegut put it in his book or to smart for there own good. The idea of wanting to go further into technology will be the downfall of the human race, in his book and in real life. That with all the new bombs that are being made that can destroy whole countries and possibly start the next world war. A quotation from the book supports this idea, it takes place in the book when the captain of the cruise ship is talking about how good the technology has gotten and how bad that is for the world: "Utterly meaningless wrath from outer space could trigger World War Three."(133) This means that the technology is so good and advanced that it's ignorant to the simplest things. The system could mistake a meteorite for a missile being fired at America, which could result in the American's being scared enough to fire back and start a war. This is just another example of how technology could be the downfall of the human race. Another example of how the big brains of the 20th century are bad for the human race, is when the narrator is stating an example of how humans back then didn't care for human life as they should of: "More and more people back then, and not just Andrew MacIntosh, had found the survival of the human race a total bore."(81) This means the human back then didn't look to the future, they were just concerned on living their life and not worried about the next generation. This is the kind of thinking that is not needed if we want our future generations to not have to worry about running out of supplies a thousand years from now. I believe that Vonnegut has a strong opinion on the future of mankind and is obviously a little bitter about all that has happened to the world to this point in 1985. He does prove and support his theme in the quotations and opinions throughout the book. Vonnegut gives many example
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Approximate Word count = 1361
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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