Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions is about insanity. It features two characters that are both going insane, and how their paths will cross. Kilgore Trout is a science fiction writer who never makes it big and doesn’t care. The only organizations that will publish his work are pornography magazines. Kilgore Trout often sends his work in not even leaving a return address or anyway of contacting him. He never knows when his work is published and doesn’t care because he hates his work. He is aware of his insanity and realizes he is an extreme pessimist. His path will cross with Dwayne Hoover, a very wealthy and “well-to-do” owner of a Pontiac dealership in a very small southern Midland County. Kilgore Trout meets Dwayne Hoover and gives him a letter that he wrote but says it’s from the creator of the universe. The message in the letter is that Dwayne Hoover is the only human being alive on the planet and that everyone else is a robot. Dwayne Hoover now believes that he is the only one left, and this added to his “bad chemicals” in his brain leave a very deadly mixture.
Kurt Vonnegut is a genius in this novel. The most captivating aspect of this book is the illustrations, the vulgar and straight forward topics and language, and the introduction. He truly portrays insanity by the use of illustrations and language. The book is littered with crude drawings of the things that are on either the characters minds or Kurt Vonnegut’s. The language is extremely vulgar, and the topics don’t add to the fact that this book isn’t in our curriculum. The topics are school inappropriate but again that is the great thing about this book, that and sheltering 17 and 18 year olds from these topics is redundant. He is an author we study in school but only one of his books. This book truly captures his writing style and the way this man thinks. The introduction is amazing for capturing the reader. The first thing he says is that he is getting rid of all the other characters in his...