Chapter Eight: The Spread of Disease

    A diction is the author's choice of words. Vonnegut has used excellent choice of words, but there was one phrase that I loved. Vonnegut writes, "He spoke of the brotherhood between the American and the Russian people, and how those two nations were going to crush the disease of Nazism, which wanted to infect the whole world" (164). Nazis wanted to spread their belief around the whole world. They wanted everyone to believe in their ideas. During World War II, Nazism was everywhere. There were the famous red flags with the swastika in the middle all over Germany and other countries during the war. Even in America, everyone spoke about the Nazis that were controlling the world. Nazism was globally. Vonnegut described Nazism perfectly. Nazism was a disease that was spread to every person. Like a disease, it has to spread through contact and that was the goal for Nazis: to spread the beliefs to everyone.