In the novel Cats Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut, Bokonon is a religion created to protect people from their own lives.

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Melanie Feliciano Lyon Kressner Analysis Paper ANALYSIS ON CATS CRADLE: BOKONON AND ITS FALSE HELP In the novel Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut, Bokonon is a religion created to “protect” people from their own lives. It is said that people need something to believe in, something to cast their eyes on when all else fails, Bokonon is that belief system. In the Novel, the dedication page acknowledges a quote from “The Books of Bokonon”, which says “Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.” Upon looking at the asterisk provided next to the word “foma” it showed that it meant “harmless untruths”. This begins to let you into the world of Bokonon.
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“I would have been a Bokononist then, if there had been anyone to teach me the bittersweet lies of Bokonon.”  Said Jonah, the main character. Which means that Bokonon, is a religion to be questioned. Is Bokonon just lies to make it’s believers, or followers have some sense of hope? In this case it might just be. The first sentence in the book of Bokonon is “All of the truth things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.” This would only make sense to the average person trying to genuinely find something to believe in.  Just for the ...

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