People

So far in the book, Vonnegut mentions new characters or refer back to them. He builds their character again or adds another depth to them. For example there is Mary who used to be a teacher. He describes her actions in her room as "murdering herself". He mentions six children who have good days and how their rewarded and their bad days and how they get away with it. It reminds me of psychology class where bad behavior should be ignored and good behavior rewarded so the child learns what's socially acceptable.

I found that the most interesting part of the story was Chapter 19. He builds more to a character named Andrew MacIntosh. Vonnegut begins the chapter off: "Like most pathological personalities, Andrew MacIntosh never cared much whether what he said was true or not - and so he was tremendously persuasive." [104] The connotation to "pathological" is negative! Someone who is crazy or is very mentally disturbed, kind of like a serial killer is what I think about. Maybe Andrew MacIntosh = Freddy? haha.

Anyways every character Vonnegut creates is a reflection of the small parts of society as a whole. Mary represents the character who can really care less about the world that she is not involved in. Nothing seems to interest her, she wanders through life. Andrew is representative of the character who perhaps is sly, like a snake. They don't really really tell the truth, they tell whatever they think will get them to the next level or whatever they think will gt them what they want. Kind of like temptation; extremely persuasive.