After experiencing two world wars, with its destructions to the environment and mankind, modern man began to question the meaning of wars. This resulted with many conflicts in people, due to the fact that the term war were also created by themselves. In the mean time there was also another threathening reality; "science", which reached an increadable measures that man was no more able to control, and catch its improvement. At this point, they felt …
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…with its background from the modernity, postmodernism appeared in American literature, which criticizes the current situation of America, in terms of its social, political, and technological dimensions; and which has an absolute freedom to create in its works, due to the absurdity and contradictions of life. In that sense, Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most significant examples of postmodernism, in terms of both context and formation, due to its critical response to the period.