Kurt Vonnegut
Surviving Loneliness, Depression, and Death The themes of Kurt Vonnegut’s short stories are based upon his struggles with depression, loneliness and death. Kurt Vonnegut’s influences came from the Great Depression, family deaths, and also, in part, from being a prisoner of war (Bleiler, 851). The themes of Vonnegut’s short stories include technology, and government. Technology is used in his stories primarily about how it is very powerful, and how it is made cruelly beyond human control. The government theme is used in Vonnegut’s short stories to show in the future, how the world becomes dominated by government, and how it controls every action of an individual’s daily life. Kurt Vonnegut’s struggles had a deep and profound impact on the writings of his short stories (Bleiler, 851). The Great Depression had an everlasting effect on Kurt Vonnegut’s writing. The Great Depression, along with Vonnegut’s army service was also a major influence in his writings (Bleiler, 851). During the years of the Great Depression, Vonnegut’s family faced emotional and financial problems. Vonnegut’s father lost his job during the great depression, and he never worked again after that, which also led Vonnegut to write
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Approximate Word count = 1867
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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