Tolog Review: The Cat's Cradle

Cat’s Cradle
By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Review by Shanley Galanto

In this superficially realistic world created by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a man who likes to be called Jonah searches for information on Felix Hoenikker, the creator of the atomic bomb. This book id from Jonah’s viewpoint and is based on his information search on Felix Hoenikker and how he gets involved with the intriguing religion of Bokonism. As he tells more about Felix, his work, and his family, he tells us more about the religion of Bokonism. Bokonism, is a religion founded on lies and talks about how groups of people are interconnected. As Jonah makes his way around the country, he finds people who are in his group of interconnectedness and discovers how people can believe in false groups of interconnectedness. He learns more and more about Felix and eventually, he changes the entire world.

This book was extremely interesting. Not only is it a wonderful story to read, but it also has so much deeper meaning. Vonnegut did an outstanding job in weaving a story that entertains, while also starts to make you question the way you see the world. For instance when he said, “Hazel’s obsession with Hoosiers around the world was an example of a false karass, of a seeming team that was meaningless in terms of the ways God gets things done, a textbook example of what Bokonon calls a grandfalloon.” I immediately questioned the way I sorted things in the world, and I even started to question the relationships I had made in the past and present. When reading Cat’s Cradle I questioned myself in ways that I hadn’t before and I truly enjoyed it.