Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Reading response Cat's Cradle

I haven't gotten very far in the book, but already I have noticed some unique characteristics. The chapters are very short, only consisting of about 2-8 pages each, and the story is told in past tense, from a person writing about his life. This guy didn't actually exist, just to clarify.

In the story, there is a man who is a man who is writing a book about his adventure of writing a book. In his adventure, he is trying to write a book about the life of the leading scientist (Felix) who created the atomic bomb that blew up Hiroshima. Nothing really of importance has been mentioned in the book besides a hint of a very important object. This object would be ice-nine.

Ice-nine is first introduced when the main character visits a scientist who worked with Felix for an interview. The man being interviewed talked of Felix telling a marine general about a substance the general would have found useful. The substance didn't exist. Felix was just telling the general that to get him to go away.


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