... of events. This cycle lacks a beginning, climax, or end, and shows Vonnegut's rejection of the "grid-like outline of the story" (McGinnis 1). This style of writing emphasizes the themes of the novel, which are time and death. By writing a novel that is constructed so seemingly pointlessly, Vonnegut is free to explore the themes from the first chapter, rather than waste time on character development, setting, and explanations because they ... isn't any particular relationship between all the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they ...

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