"When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed." (156). When Kurt Vonnegut wrote these lines in his novel Cat's Cradle , through the narration of John as a writer, he, in deed, expressed his own aim in writing this novel. As a postmodernist writer, by using innovative techniques in Cat's Cradle, he intends to reach modern reader, in order to help …showed first 75 words of 1940 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1940 total…create in this novel, appears at this point, that the world ended with the ice-nine, the creation of Dr. Felix Hoenikker, or in other words the creation of man. In conclusion, Kurt Vonnegut, with the advantages of postmodernism, in Cat's Cradle, portraits the post-II.W.W. America society in a humourous way in spite of its context; and he uses innovative technique, in which his forming of language, narration, humor, parody and fantasy are idiosyncratic.