Day 2

Breakfast of Champions Lesson Plan

Discussion of Thought Questions

  1. 1

    What is the narrative significance of Mary Young?

    Strong answers will focus on the author's insistence on interconnectedness. Mary Young connects Dwayne to Cyprian, past to present, black to white, and is the last representative of a particular era.

  2. 2

    Why do you think Vonnegut has Kilgore Trout go to 42nd Street in New York?

    Strong answers will talk about the themes of advertising and sex, and how 42nd street, at the time, was an emblem of both. In this sense, it functions narratively as the epitome of human destruction.

  3. 3

    Why do you think that, unlike that of all other characters, the race of Kilgore Trout's attackers is not identified?

    Strong answers...

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