Sunday, December 18, 2011

Phase 2 Blog 3

"I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done."
"Nice going, God!"
"Nobody but You could have done it, God! I certainly couldn't have."
"I feel very unimportant compared to You."
"The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around."
Even though the author switches from being a Christian to a Bokonoist this quote references back to Christianity. People are the mud and they are not important compared to God. Everyone in the world is small and not even as important as God. To feel important even a tiny bit is to go around and look at what God has created. Humans job in life is to find out and explore the world that God has created for Us. People use manipulation all the time to manipulate peoples lives. In this passage Vonnegut uses religion to manipulate peoples mind.

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