WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE
by KURT VONNEGUT
Context:
This story is about one future age with overpopulation (the earth has 17 billion human beings). The town where it all happens is Hyannis in Cape Cod North America. In this moment Society had been chanced hugely.
This place isn´t big enought to lodge many people, so Ciencie and moral of humans beings agreed, they will make two greats invents: Ethical suicide (Needle) 
and Ethical-birth control pills. (it mades people numb from the waist down)
3 Characters:
1) Peter Crocker is the sheriff of Barnastable County, in Cape Cod.
2) The Hostesses, two girls encharged of the Suicide Parlor from Hyannis.
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MARY KRAFT & NANCY MC LUJAN
THE HOSTESSES
3) The "Nothinhead", the poet called Billy |
| BILLY THE POET "Billy the poet" has been denominated a nothinghead because he doesn´t make his ethical birth control 3 times for day, is a rebel, someone who goes against authority, doesn't follow the crowd, has their own mind, and/or does something wrong, but for a good and greater cause. He is interesting because he refuse to accept the effect produced by the pills. And he trying also to change reality trough poems which are sending to Hostesses in Ethical Suicide Parlors, and later he try deflowering her, every facts because he will not allow the humans relacionships disappear, sensations and sex, and passion, and love .
Some poems him says:
We were walking through the park, A-goosing statues in the dark. If Sherman's horse can take it, So can you. ----------------------------------------------- I did not sow, I did not spin, And thanks to pills I did not sin. I loved the crowds, the stink, the noise. And when I peed, I peed turquoise. I ate beneath a roof of orange; Swung with progress like a door hinge. 'Neath purple roof I've come today To piss my azure life away. Virgin hostess, death's recruiter, Life is cute, but you are cuter. Mount my pecker, purple daughter— All it passed was sky-blue water. ---------------------------------------------------- "Soak yourself in Jergen's Lotion, Here comes the one-man population explosion." ----------------------------------------------------- I'm five foot two, With eyes of blue, With Brown hair to my shoulders— A manly elf So full of self The ladies say he smolders. ------------------------------------------------ How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace." ------------------------------------------------------------
Finally, this story has gave me some questions,
Will be it in future age when technology increase and increase until that relationship, sensations and love going to disappear?
I ask you about this supossed "madness" of Billy the poet.
And I ask you: Who say in the society, who is and who is not crazy or nothinhead?
Who say what is rigth or wrong way? it is a question about moral, which is a deep, and extensive, and interesting topic.
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