Night Mother by Kurt Vonnegut

Mother darkness What intrigued me the most when reading Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut, were the quotes. He says things in a way that re all toldy make you step back and intend. You could almost posit this book??? a? s story by discussing some of the quotes. In Mother Night, apolitical expatriate American playw correctly Howard W. Campbell, Jr. refashions himself as a Nazi propagandist in order to pass coded messages on to the U. S. generals and preserve his marriage to a German woman??? a? their " acres of two," as he calls it. simply in serving multiple masters, Campbell ends up ruining his life and becoming an unwitting inspiration to bigots. quotWe be what we bring in to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. " Vonnegut introduces this as the moral of his book. "There are plenty of approximate reasons for fighting, but no good reason constantly to hate without reservation, to imagine that God churchman Himself hates with you, too. " It s never been more true Left or right, Christian or Muslim, those convinced theyre doing violence in service of a higher origin and against an irretrievably inhuman enemy are the most dangerous creatures of all. But is Howard really such a bad man?All passim reading the book, I would ask myself that question. No he doesn??? a? t see to show much emotion, but doesn??? a? t that in a way seem understandable when you think about all he??? a? s done and seen? If he were to show emotion, he would go crazy. I know I would. though he does seem to receive a conscience, somehow, somewhere, deep down inside he is trapped. trap inside of the mess he??? a? s gotten himself into. I think he knows to that there is no way out, so he clay as this man he has pretended to be for so umteen years.Howard writes his story from a jail cell in old capital of Israel in 1961, while awaiting a fair trial for his war crimes by the republic of Israel. He is has a different guard for different split of the day and night. One of them is Mengel. You are the only man I ever heard of,??? N? Mengel says to me this morning, ??? Nswho has a bad conscience about what he did in the war. Everybody else, no matter what he did, is sure a good man could not have acted in any other way.??? N? ??? NsWhat makes you think I have a bad conscience???? N? I said. ??? NsThe way you sleep, the way you dream,??? N? e said. Howard tells Mengel about unexampled York. ??? Ns ??? NsNew York must be Heaven,??? N? said Mengel. ??? NsIt might well be for you??? N? , I said. ??? NsIt was Hell for me,- or not Hell, something worse and then Hell.??? N? ??? NsWhat could be worse then Hell???? N? he said. ??? NsPurgatory,??? N? I said. ??? Ns It??? a? s interesting that he says that, because that proves right there that Howard Campbell is very aware of the crimes he??? a? s committed, the residue between right and wrong, good and bad. He knows that he is there in that cell because he is paying the price.He must suf fer for all that he has done. ??? NsI was deposited on to the streets of New York, restored to the mainstream of life. I took several steps down the paving material when something happened. It was not guilt that froze me I had taught myself never to life guilt. It wasnt the fear of ending I had taught myself to think of death as a coadjutor. It was not the judgement of being unloved that froze me I had taught myself to do without love. What froze me was the fact that I had short no reason to melt down in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.Now counterbalance that flickered out.??? N? What a lonely life that must be, to feel you have nothing to live for. To know that all that has kept you going in the past was curiosity. Helga is dead, (or so he assumes) Resi is dead, the man he called his best friend had intentions of betraying him for so long, and now he is gone. People hate him, want to exhaust him, others think he i s dead and are glad, and then there are those that admire him for all the terrible things he??? a? s done. Though he can??? a? t even seem to feel proud, because unlike so many others who committed such crimes as his, he is not a sociopath.