In Breakfast of Champions, the author Kurt Vonnegut tells authentic and wise stories that lead to the encounter of the main characters Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover. With Vonnegut’s black humor and use of strong similie’s he shows his capability to evoke the readers emotions. After the meeting of Trout and Hoover, Trout a struggling writer becomes successful and wins a Nobel Prize. However, Hoover is a businessman loaded with money and on the edge of insanity sent over that edge after he met Trout.

In honest and humorous ways the American writer touches on politics, the great depression, destruction of the humankind and plenty more complex and interesting subjects. After reading this book I gained a sense of how peoples perspectives were back in the day during the great depression. In a peculiar manner Vonnegut presents a valid point when the truck driver in chapter ten justifies "The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large." To me this was one of the more remarkable ideas that Vonnegut demonstrates. It made me think of how manufacturing effects our society. In chapter one I appreciated him mentioning Americas opinion on Communism. Vonnegut states, “Dwayne Hoover's and Kilgore Trout's country, where there was still plenty of everything, was opposed to Communism. It didn't think that Earthlings who had a lot should share it with others unless they really wanted to, and most of them didn't want to. So they didn't have to.“

I enjoyed reading each and every chapter. I think what may have made me so interested was that I was eager to be informed about these subjects that I hear people discuss and debate about all the time, and I never have anything to say. I kept thinking to myself that next time someone mentions something about lets say the great depression I will actually have something to say and an opinion to share. In Breakfast of Champions I gained useful knowledge. Not factual non sense that I will never need, but perspective and the truth behind things that regular people carry interest in.