Of the six options we had, I chose the first one. That first one was: "What rhetorical stradegy does Vonnegut employ in order to appeal to his reader?"
In "A Man Without a Country," he uses a sarcactically humerous approach to keep the reader interested and entertained throughout the story. However, he sometimes uses a more serious tone when he needs to.
In terms of examples, some of his humerous style is known in Chapter 3; Page 24, where he says "I'm kidding" at the end of each sentence. Another example is the page before it, when he tells the "funniest joke in the world," which is: "Last night I dreamed of eating flannel cakes. When I woke up, the blanket was gone!"
An example of his more serious style would be on Chapter 2; Page 17, when he says: "Evolution can go to hell," "We wounded this life-supporting planet," and other statements like that. However, he says that Earth is the only life-supporting planet in the Milky Way. That must mean he doesn't believe in extraterrestrial life. This... concerns me.
As I was saying, his stradegy really is an effective one and if I ever write any literature in the future, I'll try it out myself.
