Sniper

Vonnegut’s another sweet-sad, bitter masterpiece mourns the once-perceived bourgeois values. The title is the nickname of adolescent killer Rudy Waltz. With his ammunition fired in the blind, he killed two lives at once. Rudy’s mother is killed by the radioactive mantelpiece of their house, and with all living things in Midland City, Ohio, is a neutron bomb. However, the book features a pilot awakened from his eternal dream. Symbolic figure. The mission of the parachute without a parachute is to haunt the now uninhabited but intact city. Rudy guides the Reader from sin to punishment on his bumpy path to his peace of mind. The now classic absurd is both a prophetic parable and a rebuke: we must remain fair even when the task seems utterly impossible. There was only one prisoner upstairs, a black woman, not from the city, who was taken off a long-distance bus because she beat the white bus driver. The woman came from below, from the depths of the South, and she introduced her with the thought that a peephole would open at birth, and if it closed, that would be death. Where he came from, this thought may have been commonplace. ... He asked what a white boy in such a nice dress was looking for in prison. I said there was an accident while I was cleaning the rifle. Who knows how, he fired and killed a woman somewhere far away. I had already begun to work out my defense on my own, once there was such a thing in my father’s mind. "Oh, my God," she said, "did you close a peephole?" It can be a cuddly feeling.