2BR02b

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1.Dr.Hitz makes the case that population control increases human happiness, but the punter sees the mechanism of control as "grim." At the same time,the painter also considers "war,famine,and disease" to be even less appealing than the federal bureau of termination. Whose account do you find more convincing.

2.as an artist figure,we might think of the painter as a stand-in for Vonnegut himself. Do you think that the painter is expressing Vonnegut's own ideas? Why or why not?

3.what do you think is the significance of wehlings offhanded comment that he is "the invisible man"? How does this description relate to the rest of the story?

4.early in the story, the painter tells the orderly that he won't die at the hands of the federal bureau of termination. However, by the story's end he "losses his nerve." How does this change your impression of him as a character?