Cat's Cradle

It seems like we accidentally missed a blog post last week, so I’m here to remedy that. In class, we all have our independent reading books, and I read Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.

Seen above is a picture of a Cat’s Cradle, which is referenced several times throughout the book, and also in the title. It clearly does not look like a cat sitting in a cradle, it’s just string twisted in such a way that we can say that it kind of looks like a cradle. The use this as a metaphor for how we as people tell ourselves foma, or harmless untruths, in order to make our lives more bearable. I agree that people do this to some degree, but in the book it is a bit over exaggerated. The book applies the concept to everything in the world, while I believe it only applies to certain things. But people definitely do it. We all have a habit of rationalizing things in our mind so that we can stop dwelling on something, or so that we can stop feeling guilty about something. I enjoyed Cat’s Cradle very much, even if it was a bit odd.