Cat's Cradle :)

So far, I like this book collectively. Kurt Vonnegut is a simplistic genius. There aren't really any pictures in this one, so that kinda sucks, but the imagery is priceless. Like when the youngest son is describing his father when he shows him the cat's cradle, how horrid you know? Vonnegut is so crafty when it comes to thinking out of the box, so right brain. The father I believe is a reflection of his thinking, that abnormal detachment that you don't find in most people. I mean, the guy is building an atom bomb and couldn't care less about the uses of this invention or the amount of deaths that will occur once its used.
For instance, "What is sin?" is a definite red flag that this guy has a screw loose. He's amoral. I wouldn't say careless, because it does seem that he has feelings and the potential to care about something by the way he treats that piece of string to make his cat's cradle. I wonder what the cat's cradle symbolizes. It's a support system for a cat.. Yeah I got nothing. I have to keep reading. Anyway, the layout Vonnegut has plotted so far is funny, in my opinion. There's a midget, a bug fighter, an estranged bomb maker, and a sister that has "3 kids", and a guy that is super fascinated with all of it. It's like a reality show. So clever. These all must symbolize something. The bug fighting son is a small scale representation of his father, D said that in class. The father sees absolutely nothing wrong with his son's activity, even though it is something many children do. But, when he hits his sister and she's screaming? He does nothing about it, and better yet, its almost a transparent occurrence to him because its like he never saw it at all. Strange.