The Cat's Pajamas

Many of the reasons Cat's Cradle is considered a postmodern text is found in the inclusion of its title throughout the book. For example, Little Newt mainly uses the cat's cradle to explain such things as religion, asking "See the cat?See the cradle?" whenever such a subject occurs. Meaning, the cat's cradle has no end, nor is it really a physical manifestation of the object it is named after. In having no achievable goal or actions that would make it worthy of its name, this cradle is directly relatable to the principle priorities present in the postmodern era.

Firstly, postmoderists believe in no center around which people are supposed to revolve, or that there is any "correct answer," so to speak. Likewise, there is no "correct answer" to the cat's cradle. It is a seemingly endless net of X's, that can be fitted to whatever each individual person desires. So therefore, the very idea of having a cat's cradle is strictly postmoderist. It cannot be said with complete certainty that there is an endpoint to cat's cradle. So being, no person can say that s/he has finished it.

In speaking of religion in regard to the cat's cradle, we can see that since there is no "right answer," and each person may morph the original into whatever s/he feels is right, a large variety of these "truths" come about. Such as in the jungle on the island of San Lorenzo, there is an military base of sorts called "Fort Jesus". To most people in our modern society, Christianty and Jesus Himself are usually about peace and love and whatnot. Having a military base named after Him goes against the general accepted philosophies, and therefore fits right in with postmoderist theories. In this same example, the idea of not having a unified religion, or that a religion governs many in the same dictated manner, is rejected, making Cat's Cradle all the most postmodern.

Yeah, sorry that wasn't written well. Whatever, it's Friday night. Give me a break.