Destiny as a Fictive Device in Cats Cradle, Mother Night, and Jailbird

The literary brain of Kurt Vonnegut is evidenced by hisability to weave a story from the approximately mundane of characters andcircumstances into an intricate web of possibilities for hisstories by apply literary tools such as cause and effect,congruence and destiny. Here we will essay Vonneguts use ofone of these literary tools, destiny as a simulated device, whichserves to propel the three following books Cats Cradle, MotherNight, and Jailbird. Kurt Vonnegut is a master of mistaken devicesbecause he uses them to construct an intricate web ofpossibilities for his stories to proceed on. Destiny, as the lexicon tells us, is a predeterminedcourse of events often held to be a overpowering power or agency,and in these three novels, Kurt Vonnegut implies that destiny isjust the flair things are bound to be. Some of the many forms ofdestiny used by Vonnegut to guide his characters and to shove hisstories into the right directi on include destiny for mountain whodont believe in destiny such as religious persons,anti-destiny the idea of what might have been, andpredestination the idea that what happens to you is alreadydecided. In Jailbird, Vonnegut uses a particularly obscure chief(prenominal)character named Walter F. Starbuck. Walter F. Starbuck wasa normal, law-abiding citizen in his fifties, with a wife anda son who didnt like him, but, by using destiny as a delusivedevice, Kurt Vonnegut creates an amazing story alter withadventure, love, and betrayal. In the novel Mother Night Vonnegut lays out the life of hismain character, Howard W Campbell, Jr., from when he was ... ... And, inwardly, I sarooned,which is to say that I aquiesed to the seeming demands of myvin-dit.(p137 Cats Cradle). A vin-dit is ...a Bokononist wordmeaning a sudden, very personal shove in the direction ofBokononism,...(p53 Cats Cradle). By making the character ofJohn believe in destiny, anything that happens, which sounds likedestiny, the character will react to. This gives the author to a greater extentto drop a line about. Kurt Vonnegut is a great author of American literaturebecause of how he uses literary tools to write his excitingstories. Destiny used as a fictive device is the easiest toolKurt Vonnegut uses to fertilise the lives of his characters, butit is also the most effective. If more teachers taught about howdestiny is used as a fictive device, then we would all benefit,as writers and readers.