Kurt Vonnegut’s vision of the world followong the atom bomb has many postmoder ideas. The major points of postmodernism are in chapters 74-79. The main point is Newts painting and how it is supposed to be a Cats Cradle but all you see is X's and as Julain would guess, "hell". Newt however, sees this painting as a representation of the childhooh game his father would brainstorm with, and I think he questions a lot in his world because the Cat's Cradle shows how you may think you see something , but nothing is really there. Newt questions all these so called "truths" when he askes "See the cat? See the cradle?" This painting is very different than a modernists point of view because it it both abstract and there is no real meaning to the picture, which is an underlying theme in the book, in my opinion, because throughout this novel we are told that religion is not the truth and John says that Cat's Cradle is "shameless lies",and I think his point is how do we know what is truth and what is a lie? In bokonism it basically questions all faiths which comes back to the question: what is and isnt the truth?
After all postmodernism is a rejection of the modernist movement and throughout Cat's Cradle we see that. Whether its through the sybolism in Newts picture, the underlying views of the bokonistic faith, or anything esle throughout the novel. Postmodernism is definitely a big part of Cat's Cradle
