I just realized I never did touch on "theme and setting" which I mean to in regards to Galapagos...
So like I stated earlier, the theme is "humanity's big brains made them stupider instead of smarter" or "if people would only rely on their hearts instead of their big brains we would be much better off." Basically, humanity is all dead because of technology and thinking they were making the world better with thier enormous stupid brains.
The irony of the theme/setting (for those who haven't read it) is that it takes place with a group of humanity's final survivors trapped on Galapagos island, which is the island where Darwin did his research into evolution. Get it? Funny! Kurt Vonnegut did a great job tying in his entire theme in with his setting.
So like I stated earlier, the theme is "humanity's big brains made them stupider instead of smarter" or "if people would only rely on their hearts instead of their big brains we would be much better off." Basically, humanity is all dead because of technology and thinking they were making the world better with thier enormous stupid brains.
The irony of the theme/setting (for those who haven't read it) is that it takes place with a group of humanity's final survivors trapped on Galapagos island, which is the island where Darwin did his research into evolution. Get it? Funny! Kurt Vonnegut did a great job tying in his entire theme in with his setting.
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