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The narrator, Jonah, plans to write a book, The Day the World Ended, describing what important people were doing the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. His research prompts him to contact Newton Hoenikker, the youngest child of Felix Hoenikker, a fictional Nobel laureate physicist who helped develop the weapon. Newt, though only a child on the day the atom bomb was dropped, remembers his father as a brilliant and distant man. Newt also mentions that his brother Frank has been missing for many years, but he provides Jonah with his sister Angela's contact information so that she can share her memories of the day in question. Jonah's attempts to contact Angela go unanswered, but eventually he gets a freelance writing job in Ilium…

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What is Bokononism? How is it different from the religion(s) you are most familiar with? What role does Bokononism play for its adherents? Is Bokononism the same as nihilism? Vonnegut’s novel focuses on both science and religion. How are the two present

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Posted By erin s #211811 at Nov 08, 2011 5:36 PM

why does Dr. Asa Breeds son leave the world of scientific research?

This question is from the book Cat's Cradel by Kurt Vonnegut. It's in chapers 33-35

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