n beings lack communication skills and are therefore insecure with all conversation. They do not want to stumble upon any truth that may force them to confront reality. People are also “enchanted by sound” they will buy into anything that seems pleasing (113). Objects are popular if they possess an obliging name or because one simply “ [likes] the sound of it” (175). People must have things that they can believe make them happy or good people; without that people are faced with truth. People do not listen, they assume they know what they will hear, so when language is not composed of meaningless cliches it consists of ritualistic responses to block out the real world (Hubert N.P.).Breakfast of Champions also reveals that humans use guns to gain control of a bad situation. A gun, “ a tool whose only purpose [is] to make holes in human beings,” displays that guns are worthless because they used for the wrong purpose when in the wrong hands (Vonnegut 49). Guns only increase the chaos among the human race when “ criminals point guns at people and demand money,” especially when “everybody [has] one” (Vonnegut 49, 50). People shoot each other so often because it is a convenient device to bring some form of order to chaos, when in actuality, people should bring order to their own chaos by confronting it head on (N.P. 3). Throughout Cat’s Cradle, Vonnegut focuses on how people are stuck in their ways of avoiding reality and are losing sight of what is true. Vonnegut depicts confusion about what is real and what is imaginary. He then explains how people rationalize living with in lies and how they feel when finally faced with reality. In Cat’s Cradle, Vonnegut presents the town of San Lorenzo as a town of extreme beauty, with its lavish hotels and boulevard. These monuments are however, all illusionary to the real town. “ The Casa Mona [is] built like a book case,R...
