Chapter 5

In chapter five Vonnegut discusses the differences between men and women and what they want. Vonnegut says men want pals to be with and women want people to talk to and when they get married each gain more pals or people to talk to through extended families. People haven't been having many children to have large extended families for each gender to get what they want and that's why divorces have been taking place Vonnegut says. He mentions that people will think its about money or power but it's really just about people to talk to in almost any situation.

Vonnegut brings his point from the men and women to the Germans and Anglos. This chapter compares these points during the entire chapter. Vonnegut says Germans and Anglos had a fault line between them and the girls family didn't appreciate him being German. The chapter finishes off with Vonnegut talking about the Germans and Anglos and why they had a dispute and how this girls family and the Anglos like to have control.

Picture and song

"Well, it suddenly struck me
I just might die with a smile on my face after all"
That Joke isn't Funny Any more - The Smiths

The picture shows the best of nature. It shows nature with all it's colors and the wide variety of its different landscaped. Nature can someone's be a beautiful sight and others it can be very gloomy at other times. Natures everywhere and always surrounding us. It's a huge part in everything's life.

This song quote is a very strong one. It has emotions to it when you read it. It makes you think that was this man going through to have to say this? Was it something good in his life or something very bad. It makes people think of personal experiences and others. Was it just a joke to begin with or was it meant to be serious? It's a good quote to put views on. 

Chapter 4

In "A Man Without a Country" chapter four Vonnegut talks about the game of life. Vonnegut gives examples of people's success or failures in this chapter to summarize what life is all about. Vonnegut informs everyone that life's a game and the successful people have won it and the failures have lost it. The game thats played whoever has the most money in the end wins the game and whoever doesn't have enough loses. He gives the story of Adam and Eve as an example of how one was persuaded into eating the apple. Since one had eaten the apple both got in trouble from it. The game has choices to make to be successful and incidents can cause people to fail.

Vonnegut mentions a cigarette company that the owner had made billions of dollars on. The man that did this is obviously a winner in the game. This man is obviously a winner because he has the money to buy whatever he wants. Money is the key to winning the game. He then mentions substance abuse about drunks seeing pink elephants. These "drunks" have not won the game since they can't play the game without substances in the way.This chapter was one focusing on what life consists of and how it is a game and can be won or lost through making good or bad choices.

Question 2

Should we, as humans, value creations? Even bad ones?

As humans creations are what we strive on throughout our lives. Human lifespans range from one to one-hundred and ten years. Creations are what keep us motivated through our lifes because everything is a creation In a way. Without creations we would still be in there Stone Age since nothing would have been created. Every creation is an advance for everyone not just humans. Humans should value these creations more though since we can take action with the creation and evolve it.

Every creation has a good purpose. That means a bad creation does not exist since every creation is an advance in its own way. A human should value every creation because any and every creation can lead to an even more remarkable discovery. People say the atomic bomb was a bad decision to make but, since the atomic bomb further things have led off that to new creations. As humans we strive for creativity and new things to mess with in the future.

Kurt's writing

Vonneguts writing in "How to Write with Style" reflects in how he wrote "A Man Without A Country".  In "How to Write With Style" Vonnegut says to just be yourself in your writing and not to make it boring. Keep the readers attention throughout it with the readers wanting more. Nv ramble off topic or about pointless nonsense just to take up more space that will leave the readers with boredom. When writing you want to write about something you are interested in and readers in the same intest will read your work.

In "A Man Without A Country" Vonnegut talks about himself and his life and never rambles on about an unwanted topic throughout the book. Vonnegut sticks to his topic on his life story and how he grew threw his life. He does exactly what he says to do in his how to write with style piece.

Improvements

All of the blogs had the right information needed. Almost all of them were well developed as needed. There was a few though that had absolutely no information on the book that wasn't persuading or informing people about the book. It did not follow the guidelines or the purpose of the assignment which did not help in getting votes for the book he/she wanted. In the end though most of the presentations were very well developed persuading power points.

In the persuading of high school students you should find there interests. As in persuading kid with a lot of adrenaline tell about the action parts of the book. Most of the presentations were on key as in telling the action parts and what the story was about and why we would wanna read the book. Most of huge presentations were on "teacher man" but "A Man Without A Country" won due to the amazing persuasion skills used by the one and only teacher of ours.

Novel Choice

My vote for the book for the class to read is "A Man Without A Country". I chose this book because I would rather read about a mans life that was in World War Two than a teachers life. In the book A Man Without A Country it is a story of his entire life and what had happened and how it went downhill. It seems that the story would keep everyone wanting to read more to find out what happens to this man throughout his life. Vonnegut seems to have a good book about his life that isn't a boring one that just lists things in his life but goes into detail on his struggles and his feelings during them.

From the small portion of the book I had read it seems great. Reading some of the book was what really got me sold and doing my presentation also since I had to know information for my PowerPoint. That gave me information on there book and the information on the book made it seem like a good book for the class to read.