... insane, as his entire focus on life is shifted. In the chaos of Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut displays a view that stories with coincidences, strict beginning, middle and end and lessons to be learned are not applicable to real life. None of the characters in the novel meet until the final few pages (in which Vonnegut cathartically frees them from the book, and thus ... often the source of it. Freedom, however, comes in many forms - what levels of racial liberation have the ethnic minorities of the US truly ascended to? The central and most celebrated facet of the American doctrine is...

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