Analysis Of Kurt Vonnegut's Short Stories: Welcome To The Monkey House

How does the text conform to, or deviate from, the conventions of a particular genre, and for what purpose?
How do Kurt Vonnegut’s short stories “Welcome to the Monkey house” conform to post-modernism?
Postmodernism it is a complicated term but it can also be interpreted as a set of ideas, it has only emerged as an area of academic study since the mid-1980s. Defining Postmodernism initially can be problematic, because the concept itself relates to many academic disciplines including architecture, art, literature, film, communications, technology, and fashion. The term “postmodernism” emerged in the 1960’s to cope with and reflect the radical changes which have been projected on the nature of knowledge since World War 2. What characterizes the

Also in those three short stories (“Who Am I this Time”, “All the kings horses”, “Displaced Person”,) Vonnegut focuses and emphasizes different kind of aspects. In the first story “Who Am I this time”, he focuses on isolate individuals and responds to their solitude in a robust world. In the second story “All the kings’ horses” he addresses and questions the morality and humanity, especially relationships between the family members and also people’s actions. In the third story “Displaced Person” Vonnegut emphasizes the treatment of different people and also the power of identifiers in that society. He questions the source of our knowledge and different aspects of humanity in order to provide a new way of thinking. In “Who Am I This Time?” short story, the concepts of identity and self-isolation are the terms which are being put into question and analyze. In this story, two main characters Harry and Helene both struggle with making contact with other people and choose to spend their time in loneliness.

And practically all the men in the different companies I visit are married and I never stay anyplace long enough to know many people who aren’t…even in school I was always moving around a lot. My father was a construction worker, following jobs around, so I was always saying hello or good-by to someplace, without anything in between” (pp. 19-20). There was something missing out from both Helene and Harry lives when they were younger. So that forced them to isolate themselves from other people. Vonnegut is criticizing Harry and Helene for being isolate and he forces the reader to question what thing in the society makes people like Harry and Helene the way they are. In “Displaced Person”, a young boy named Joe does not know anything about who he is and where he comes from, and he struggles in finding his identity. Joe is an African American born in Germany who lives at an orphanage. Joe’s original name was Karl Heinz, but everyone calls him Joe because the only other black person they know is Joe Louis, the professional boxer. All Joe wants to know is who his parents are because he feels like he does not belong there in Germany. “Peter said my mother was a German, and my father was an American soldier who went away. He said she left me with you, and then went away too.” There was no sadness in his voice- only