Alright, so first for all, I am really enjoying this book. I mean the book jumps all over and the each chapter is completely different than the one before it (well it seems that way). So far, it is one my favorite, but I am only on chapter twenty three. Anyways, the author says that the lady knows absolutely everything about God, and then the lady can not understand how to read the blueprint. “The lady claimed to understand God and His Ways of Working perfectly. She could not understand why anyone should be puzzled about what had been or about what was going to be. And yet, I showed her a blueprint of the doghouse I proposed to build, she said to me, “I’m sorry, but I never could read one of those things (4).” This is funny to me, because the lady just contradicted herself. God knows everything, so when she could not read the blueprint, something was wrong. She most definitely could not understand everything about God.
I believe this to be like Postmodernism because in that book, people want to control and be able to comprehend everything. The lady in Cat’s Cradle provides a clear example of how people think they know everything until something comes along that they have never seen before. In some way, I think, Postmodernism relates to this. In Postmodernism people believe that their way of life is the only way and that they know everything just because they know everything about their own culture. However, they do not realize that there are so many other cultures. Cat’s Cradle shows this by having a woman think that she gets everything until this weird object is in front of her, and she has no idea how to approach it because she was never taught to read it. Ok, well I hope that made sense and I hope that was enjoyable to someone!!!