Literary Style Of Writing In Galápagos, By Kurt Vonnegut

There are millions of books out in the world today, all different genres and all different stories. Author Kurt Vonnegut is known to for his satirical literary style of writing while also using science-fiction. As with many of his novels, he continued this type of writing through his book, Galápagos written in 1985. Vonnegut had a very specific way of writing; He kept things simple and straight forward, not having long runoff sentences and keeping things short. This lead to things being simply understood during analyzations. Galápagos’s narrator is Leon Trout, who is a ghost from the past history of the Bahía de Darwin, which is the boat on which the present day setting is placed. To get a background on Leon Trout, the reader needs to finish …show more content…
The way he addresses the species is as in a way of disgust. That he and everyone else should have realized that this earth was perfect and the human race ruined their opportunity. “From the violence people were doing to themselves and each other, and to all other living things, for that matter, a visitor from another planet might have assumed that the environment had gone haywire, and that the people were in such a frenzy because Nature was about to kill them all,” but of course, this was not the situation. Because Trout knew that the earth was giving and nourishing to all living things. He was, like stated earlier, disgusted in the way humans acted, but came to the conclusion it was because of their large …show more content…
The history behind this “new human race” is the story itself in which is being told. The virus that wipes out the possibility of fertility across the world seemed to be the end of the human race, except the select few onboard the Bahía de Darwin, which were not effected by the virus. This making those passengers the only people in the world able to repopulate. Not knowing this and still on the boat, they become stranded on a island part of the Galapagos. Watching all the terrible things humans did for many years, Trout makes several references to what would be different because the change in the biology of the human race. “Now, there is a big-brain idea I haven’t heard about lately: human slavery. How could you ever hold somebody in bondage with nothing but your flippers and your mouth?” (192), this is just one comment that Trout makes to show the reader how truly awful humans acted before evolution. But now, they can no longer act like that, and it almost seems as it brings a type of joy to