During the time of modernism, people looked for one thing..........the truth. They wanted to know how this was made or if people we hear about in legends really existed. Post-modernism is usually where people are given the truth and they have to decide now whether they choose to believe it or not. They must put their own knowledge into consideration and come up with their own ideas. This not just a personal thing, but also a universal thing.
In Cat’s Cradle we see that this book is post-modernism because they are searching for a truth and they are given all this information, now they must put it all together to believe the “real truth”. They can be given any kind of information and for all they know it’s fake. For example, San Lorenzo had happy people in it but it was full of lies, “ McCabe dreamed of making it a utopia” (Vonnegut). We have already discussed this in class before. Utopias do not exist, they just cannot be really made at all. Here in San Lorenzo there are poor people on the island but they are all joyful of it. They are told that people live like this, are happy. The people do not know any better but to believe their leaders. In our society we would want to know that there was a better way of living if people lived in poverty. The thing is though, we do know of a better way of living, but some of us cannot change our status. In the novel there are people who live in a better society, but they cannot share it with the people on the island because it would be useless. They would just not believe all this blasphemy that is being told to them about the way they live.
