Kurt Vonnegut-2

A Unique Vision of the End and Everything In Between

Thesis: Through his novels, Kurt Vonnegut expresses his distrust of technology, opposition to religion and fear of a rapidly evolving society. I. Introduction II. Kurt Vonnegut distrusts the rapid movement towards an automated human race. A. The theme in some of Vonnegut’s novels and short stories is that humankind needs to move away from a reliance on technology. 1. Vonnegut's novels are like an outline for what we shouldn’t let happen. 2. The basis for Player Piano is a machine run America and the what happens when people realize their own selves and that they are not a shell of a machine. B. Vonnegut’s solution to the rapid movement towards letting machines take precedence over humans is that we rely more on each other than technology. 1. "The Ghost Shirt Society" in Player Piano unites to attempt to take back their lives from the machines. 2. After the rebellion against the machines, Ilium becomes a sort of human co-op,...