Graduation Year

2026

Publication Date

2023

Comments

Second Place, 2022-2023, Best Gateway Essay Contest

Gateway Professor: Kathleen Zurkowski, Adjunct Instructor in English

Abstract

In this review of Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night, the author determines whether the book should be required reading for English 101 classes. Students, in a generation of apolitical views and the common belonging in middle ground, are often assigned books that do not seem to grasp their attention needed to take anything away from the reading experience. Mother Night has many ways of grabbing and holding this attention while displaying the dangers of running away from history. The author concludes that Mother Night should be required for all English 101 classes.

Disciplines

English Language and Literature | Rhetoric and Composition

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