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- Title: Chapter 20: God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut: Learning Civics from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr (Part II) (Report)
- Author : Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 84 KB
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INTRODUCTION In April 2007, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. died at the age of 84. Vonnegut's books, particularly his classic Slaughterhouse-Five (1969/1991), appear on scores of "suggested reading" lists for students and line the shelves of school libraries. His short stories also are readily available to students; one of which, "Harrison Bergeron," is published in a well-known literature anthology (Kennedy, 1991). Although availability and accessibility do not necessarily indicate students' actual reading habits, Vonnegut's work has been found to be particularly attractive to young people (Klinkenborg, 2007) and is frequently part of the sanctioned school curriculum. Therefore, scholars and educators benefit by examining the sort of messages, both overt and covert, that youngsters receive through his writings. (1) What is embedded in Vonnegut's (1965/1998) work is a subtle cure for "Samaritrophia," the fictitious disease named in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, which manifests itself as a "hysterical indifference to the troubles of those less fortunate than oneself " (p. 51).