Chapter 1 (Lit Terms)

While reading the first chapter, I was able to discover the types of characters in the story. Vonnegut gives great descriptions of all of the characters named in the first chapter. When Vonnegut goes to visit an old friend from war, Bernard V. O'Hare, he had the time to sit down and talk to O'Hare as well to meet his wife, Mary. As Vonnegut describes Mary, he used Direct Characteriszation. Mary did not seem to like Vonnegut at first. As they began to talk, Vonnegut realized why Mary was not fond of him. It was not that she did not like him, it was that she did not like what he was going to write about. She also does not like that young children are being put into war. When Vonnegut finally understood, he says, "It was war that made her so angry. She didn't want her babies or anybody else's babies killed in war." (15) Vonnegut then told her than he would not write the way she thought he would, and she began to be nice to him.