Monday, February 15, 2010

The Gutless Wonder

I believe Vonnegut inserted a segment of Trout's book, The Gutless Wonder, to show satire in American values. Vonnegut is showing the futility of humans. The robots in The Gutless Wonder is not accepted in the human society because of the horrible breath they have. Once the bad breath is treated, humans accept them. It is shocking that the humans accept the robots because the robots are conducting very violent actions. The robots drop burning gasoline on the humans from airplanes not knowing the harm they are inflecting on the humans. The robots do not the harm they are causing because they have no conscience. The humans find this to be okay because the robots resemble humans and conduct humanly actions. The humans are willing to accept the robots into their society, and ignore their acts of violence as long as they have acceptable social manners.

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