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Cats Cradle

84% of the world practices some type of religion. Many have various opinions and different understandings considering the subject. With religion it all comes down on what you believe, in many cases, this could be harmful. In the novel Cat’s Cradle, the author Kurt Vonnegut, writes of a man who comes across the religion Bokonism, which is based on ‘foma’; lies. Which goes into a downward spiral and ends the world, pratically wiping out human existence, with a few exceptions. In the novel, The main characters display characteristics of almost hypnotism to this religion, though it is banned they are drawn to this type of “forbidden fruit.” They don’t think for themselves and they do ...

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McCabe and Bokonon made a religion to make a good “standard of living”. So they made a ‘harmless’ lie to make people interested in the town and want to live there. People who believed the lie didn’t pay attention to their surroundings. “But people dint have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of the people grow.”(Vonnegut 174) People of San Lorenzo loved the story, they wanted to hunt down the evil man, and see the followers be hung on the hook. They needed fear and love in their lives, sadly they were all lies. They couldn’t get rid of these lies with time because they would always be passed down through stories and they needed that fear to keep the town exciting. “McCabe was always sane enough to realize that without the holy man to war against, he himself would become meaningless. Papa Monzano understands that, too.”(Vonnegut 175) Meaning, Papa ...

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