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This week’s reading I found super interesting. Maybe because it’s totally random and hard to understand like myself, or because I have read Kurt Vonnegut’s book Slaughterhouse 5. Throught out both speeches I think he does a great job of making it interesting. In the first speech he talks about being in World War I, saving his marriage multiple times and raising his kids. He also talks about how people treat other people like garbage, but if you believe in astrology and palm-reading then even a nobody is a somebody. He also says that eveeryone somewhat has a talent like dancers, architects, and etc.                                                        In the second speech he talks about how dentist should quit their jobs, their making people live too long. He also talks about the Mona Lisa and how she isn’t correctly drawn and how Leonardo DaVinci is lazy. He talks about he isn’t a religious man or how much he loves science. He also makes a reference to his sister that “your parents ruin the first part of your life, and your parents ruin the second.”

I liked these speeches because it had valid points in it of life and the most important one being, “don’t take life so serious.” I agree with this 100% because if you live your life seriously and stress about everything, than its going to be boring and a hard life to live. I also liked how he went back and forth from different topics, it kept the reader interested in a very strange way. And the quote about the parents and kids is so so true. I loved this quote.