Cat's Cradle (1~31)

In our english class, we started reading a fiction novel, "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut. This novel was around 300 pages, not too thick. The formate of this novel was very interesting. Some of it's chapters are very short, or, extremely short, while other chapters might be 3~4 pages. After reading the first 31 pages, 14 chapters of this novel, I'm pretty sure what the writer's writing style is like. Mr. Vonnegut uses a lot of conversations on this book. It made it easier to read because the conversations are pretty straightforward. Yet, the overall of this novel is pretty hard to understand. I believe he purposely digress in some chapters. I know they all lead to some kind of conflict later, but it is very ambiguous for the readers in the beginning. This novel is also full of black humors. Not dark enough to be depressing, but definitely not a bright book.

In this book, theres a very interesting character which I must bring up, Dr. Felix Hoenikker. He was the inventor of the nuclear bomb that ended World War II. Dr. Hoenikker was an apathetic. I think he doesn't even have feelings. Or, theres another possibility. He could be a misanthropist. The character was still ambiguous to the readers, but it already caught my attention. I'm looking forward to read more about Dr. Felix Hoenikker and find out what is the reason for his apathy.