Kittens Kradule Blog

Throughout the story there are many different parallels found throughout Cats Cradle that connect to the postmodernist views.  Postmodernism really has no true meaning and is percieved in a load of different ways.  People from this really just kinda take a lot of different people and put them in their respective groups just like a "granfallon" or a "karass".  Many postemodernist believe that the real destruction to human life will be the ultimate truth of humanity.  This is also shown becasue throughout the book there are a lot of connections to the religion of "Bokonon".  This could sort of be attactched to the thoughts of postmodernism becasue both of them run people.  Postmodernism has certain views and ideas on the world just like how in the book Bokononism really does the same exact thing, by putting people in "karasses" and also by making people believe in certain ideals of the world.  One of the good quotes in the story is "All of the true things that I am to tell you are shameless lies."  This quote is very eye catching because it is really just showing how the people in the story always have something to look for to believe in because there is not one set thing to believe in.  Pretty much this religion is made to make someone think of something else so they do not really have their attention on the main goal.  They believe they are happy with what they found out but they do not know that they just got off track and are now believing or looking for something that is made to get them off topic.  This is the same as the postmodernist becasue they believe that you should live in your own thoughts, pretty much your own world, and that is a close connection to the ideals found throughout Cat's Cradle.