Hey, I saw the cat, but I also saw a stroller.

     The general idea of modernism is that everything has its place, that everything has to be uniform. It's about reaching perfection. Of course, post-modernist theory is the opposite. Post-modernism believe that humans should color outside the lines of the norm. Like Voldemort thinks that Mudbloods and Muggles have their place, while Harry Potter wants to bring on the Mudblood and Muggle love. If you couldn't tell what I was doing there, I was trying to relate modernism and postmodernism theories to something awesome, but wait! There's something just as awesome as Harry Potter than I can relate it to! Yep, Cat’s Cradle.
      I have been reading this book for quite a while now and I have to say it's very unique. I truly have never read anything quite like it. For one, the chapters are way shorter than normal books and they have fairly strange titles. I mean, even at the beginning of the book, you haven’t even started reading it yet! It says, "Nothing in this book is true". This whole lying thing is an important theme in the book. There is a religion called Bokonon that is just a bunch of lies that have been told so many times, they have become truth. Any lie can become truth. Heck, 2+2=5 don't it? There is one truth in this world (and maybe not even) that there is no absolute truth. In my opinion, to address that in a book is post modernistic because all fictional books are made up of lies. The ideas or the emotion can be real, but it's all based off of a lie and that kind of thinking is considered to be postmodern like.
      Even the way the book is written is unusual. His characters are quite stranger than characters usually are. Felix Hoenikker was an odd man who never really cared about the human race mostly about his science and turtles, but he still had a family; that he never spent time with. He had three children: Angela, Frank, and Newt. Angela is a tall and emotionally awkward girl who really ever cared about playing the clarinet or taking care of her father. Frank, the middle child who like to make bugs fight each other. Newt, he's a midget. Also the character of Julian Castle who you would thing to be presented as a great man because of the things he's done is instead, "Castle wore a baggy white linen suit and string tie. He had a scraggly mustache. He was bald. He was scrawny... He forestalled all references to his possible saintliness by talking out of the corner of his mouth like a movie gangster". It seems to be a strange description if you ask me. I don't know how saints and gangsters go together. Plus the way the characters speak if definitely not the modernistic way. Talking to a bartender who likes fudge and a prostitute named Sandra, the bartender says about Felix Hoenikker, "'He was just one of those kids who made model airplanes and jerked off all the time"'. Not necessarily appropriate, but definitely funny.