he destruction of the world by ice nine shows Vonnegut's tendency towards his negative view of the world. No matter what any of the characters wished for or did, the world was destroyed all the same by some incredibly stupid and pointless force called God, who guided the entire human race through its wasted and bloody history simply so one man could, "Climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my backthumbing my nose at You Know Who" (Achebe 287). Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut is a satire on the state of world affairs in the 1960's. At the beginning of the novel, the narrator is researching for a book he is writing. The book is to be about the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and the lives of the people who created the bomb. The narrator is involved in events which are helplessly beyond his control, but which are unavoidably leading to a destination at the end. In the end the entire earth is destroyed, through a seemingly impossible series of coincidences and completely random events, which are strangely explained by Bokononism. All through the story Vonnegut builds up his theme of the pointlessness of life with the help of satire. An example of this is the religion of Bokononism. Bokononism says that that all religions (including Bokononism) are nothing but a pack of hideous lies, which should be completely ignored....
