... to great verisimilitude) involves him directly participating in the search for - and death of - the American Dream. Despite being markedly different in style, each book has a shared theme and each author's vitriolic arrow is poised to hit the same target. Vonnegut ... and especially politically in this day and age.", This echoes Vonnegut's views about the US being a chaotic and unstructured country. Vonnegut shows us chaos in Breakfast of Champions through the stories of the main character, the absurdly-named writer ... upon the idea of war and the eras it defines. Yossarian descends a...

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... encouraged isolationism during the mid 1930s. The Book of the Month Club featured a volume entitled Merchants of Death, which asserted that arms manufacturers who had deliberately stimulated the war to market their products had drawn the ... War I. From 1934 to 1936, a congressional committee chaired by Senator Nye, investigated charges that false Allied propaganda and Wall Street bankers had dragged America into the war. In April of 1935, 50,000 veterans held a peace march through ... in Europe. This campaign, strictly translated as "living space," was Hitler's desire to conquer Europe...

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• Grade Level: High School