Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Engaging Mother Night

Welcome to your first assignment for Enduring Questions, Fall 2011.  In this post, you will find links to about 40 question sets about Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 novel, Mother Night.

After you've read the chapters listed below, click on the links, read the corresponding questions and comments other readers may have left (click on the "comment" button beneath each post to see them), and then join the discussion (or initiate it).

Introduction #1: Who we pretend to be
Introduction #2: And the moral is . . 
Introduction #4: Fire-bombing Dresden
Introduction #5: Vonnegut = a Nazi?...

More questions after the break!
Editor's Note: Can fiction lie?
Chapter Two: Sonderkommando
Chapter Five: Purgatory anybody?
Chapter Nine, #1: Silence = consent?
Chapter Ten: Cats in Heat?
Chapter Twelve: That's Bull
Chapter 16, #1: Road to Happiness: Paved with Cruelty?
Chapter Eighteen: You Propagandize, I Spread Truth
Chapter Twenty-Five: Absolutely!
Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Soldier's Soul
Chapter Twenty-Nine, #2: Did I Just Pass a Kidney Stone?
Chapter Thirty-One: Was that an Insult?
Chapter Thirty-Two, #2: Who Let the Doggerel Out?
Chapter Thirty-Seven, #2: Your Lyin' Eyes
Chapter Forty-Four: Lock Me Up
Chapter 45, #2: Freedom? I Think I'm Gonna Hurl
Chapter 45, #4: Any More Questions?

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