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Discussion Questions

1: How does Kurt Vonnegut follow his own rules for short stories?

2: How does this story show signs of breaking out of Boyd's categories and into a new, "post-modernist" category?

3. How is "EPICAC" and its characterization used to represent themes or ideals about society?

4. Analyze the relationship between the narrator and EPICAC

EPICAC starts to make poems for the narrator, to give to Pat

The narrator gives Pat the poems as his own, instead of EPICAC - which causes her to fall in love with him

The narrator realizes EPICAC is in love with Pat, but describes that she can never love him back, because he's a computer

The EPICAC destroys itself, because it because it cannot be with Pat, but prints 500 poems for the narrator to secure his marriage to Pat

"EPICAC"

First featured in the book, Welcome to Monkey House, also published in Collier's Weekly

Story is about a supercomputer, EPICAC, and its relationship between an unnamed first-person narrator in love with his co-worker "Pat"

Narrator gets close with the "super-computer" and describes different components of life, and love, to EPICAC

EPICAC learns about the narrator's one-sided love for Pat, and his ineffectual attempts to woo her, as well as different aspects of life

8 Rules for Short Stories

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he/she will not feel the time was wasted

2. Give the character at least one character he or she can root for

3. Every character should want something

4. Every sentence must do one of two things - reveal character or advance the action

5. Start as close to the end as possible

6. Be a sadist

7. Write to please just one person

8. Give your readers as much information as possible in as short amout of time as possible

Writing Style

Considered a "Post-Modernist" writer:

Genre is characterized by reliance on fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator

Common techniques used are irony, black humor, intertextuality, and metaphysics

Vonnegut believed in "keeping it simple:"

Simple words are better than fancy ones

Developed eight rules for the short story

Moves from Chicago to Schenectady working PR for General Electric

Starts to pursue a writing career

Writing Years:

Submits Cat's Cradle as his master's thesis for U. of Chicago

Works briefly for Sports Illustrated

Writes many of his famous short stories such as "EPICAC," and "Harrison Bergeron"

Teaching job at University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop

Writes Slaughterhouse-Five

Teaches at Harvard and the City College of New York

Dies: April 11, 2007 - 87 years old

Mother's Day, 1944: Mother commits suicide

WWII:

Captured by the Germans during the "Battle of the Bulge"

Witnessed firebombing of Dresden

Held POW in slaughterhouse meatlocker during bombing (Slaughterhouse5)

Post-war:

Attended University of Chicago studying anthropology

Worked at the City News Bureau of Chicago

Life

Born: November 11, 1922 // Indianapolis, IN

Attended Cornell University majoring in Chemistry

Associate Editor of The Cornell Daily Sun

Enlists in the United States Army~

Army transfers him to Carnegie Institute of Technology, then to the University of Tennessee

Kurt Vonnegut

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