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Cat’s Cradle can be considered a postmodern work of literature most specifically because of the way it is written and how the book starts. The first sentence of the book is “Call me Jonah” which is not a reference from the book Moby Dick about a lost man trying to find his way. The name of the man though is in contrast to  Moby Dick  as it is the biblical name of the man who was swallowed by a whale not a man who hunted a whale. Vonnegut uses both the name and the reference to another book to create a contrast and a postmodern style from the first sentence. The book starts with Kurt Vonnegut’s view of the world after the atomic bomb was used to end WWII. The narrator John or Jonah is writing a book “The Day the World Ended” which is about the day the atomic bomb was used on Hiroshima and included in his book is a section about the bomb’s creator Felix Hoenikker. John’s research includes Hoenikker’s family which includes his midget son, 6 foot tall daughter, and bug obsessed son. Ihab Hassan in his essay “Toward a Concept of Postmodernism” defines Postmodernism as: Paraphysics/Dadaism, Antiform (disjunctive, open), Play, Chance, Anarchy, Exhaustion/silence, Performance/Happening, Participation,  Decreation/Deconstruction, Antithesis, Absence, Dispersal, Text/Intertext, Rhetoric, Syntagm, Parataxis, Metonymy, Combination, Rhizome/Surface, Against Interpretation, Misreading, Signifier,  Idiolect, Desire, Mutant, Polymorphous, Schizophrenia, Difference-Differance/Trace, The Holy Ghost, Indeterminacy, and Immanence. It is clear from the second title of the book “The Day the World Ended” postmodern ideas are being used. The description of the family is also an aspect of postmodernism as they are not the normal nuclear family and they are different and strange and even ironically described as a family of freaks. This is also a comparison to the affects Hoenikker’s bomb had on people as it created mutants in similarity to his family. "The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around" further shows how Vonnegut’s style of writing is dark and contains postmodern stylization such as misreading and antiform.  Cat’s Cradle is filled with postmodern ideals.