Effective Use of Irony and Satire in Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is a satire on the state of world affairs in the 1960s. Vonnegut commented in this book on the tendency of human beings to be warlike, warlike, and short-sighted. The main character of the book, the narrator, is certainly not a protagonist, although the modern reader craves a hero in every story and the narrator in this one is the most likely candidate. Through the eyes of the narrator, Vonnegut has created a story of dark humor that ends in the destruction of the earth. Vonnegut's writing style throughout the novel is very light, light and sarcastic. The narrator's observations and the events that occurred in the novel reflect a dark view of humanity that can only be mocked with humor. At the beginning of the novel the narrator is researching a book he is writing. The book was supposed to be about the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and the lives of the people who created the bomb. The narrator travels through the plot of the story, with characters flying in and out, almost in a daze. He is involved in events that are helplessly beyond his control, but which ultimately lead inevitably to a destination. The narrator's lack of control over events brings out one of the main themes of the story which is embodied in a fictitious religion invented by Vonnegut, Bokononism. Bokononism is Vonnegut's way of describing the main theme of the book, which is that no matter what one does, no one can change the incredible stupidity of humanity. Bokononism holds that all religions (including Bokononism) are nothing more than a pack of hideous lies that should be completely ignored. Even with this self-defeating background...... middle of paper......s. Vonnegut emphasizes the truth in life's small deviations like that of the Boko-maru, while underlining the absurdity and falsity of large deviations. The final irony of the book is that no matter what religion you believe in, no matter what acts of kindness you perform, no matter how much truth and beauty there is in the little idiosyncrasies of life, nothing can ultimately save everything from total ruin and uselessness. . Ice Nine's destruction of the world showed Vonnegut's tendency towards this pessimistic view of the world. No matter what the characters wished or did, the world was still destroyed by an incredibly stupid and useless force called fate, or God, who guided the entire human race through its futile and bloody history simply so one man could lie. to the top of Mount McCabe and commits suicide while mocking God.