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Global issue: The global issue reflected from both the Pawel Kuczunski illustration and Cat’s Cradle is to do with the blind devotion to a belief or religion and disregarding the truth for the sake of emotional stability.

Based on your global issue identified above what extracts (from Cat’s Cradle and choose an illustration will you use. Paste them below and then briefly explain their connection to the global issue.

Illustration:

Extract from Cat’s Cradle:

Which brings me to the Bokononist concept of a wampeter.

A wampeter is the pivot of a karass. No karass is without a wampeter, Bokonon tells us, just as no wheel is without a hub.

Anything can be a wampeter: a tree, a rock, an animal, an idea, a book, a melody, the Holy Grail. Whatever it is, the members of its karass revolve about it in the majestic chaos of a spiral nebula. The orbits of the members of a karass about their common wampeter are spiritual orbits, naturally. It is souls and not bodies that revolve. As Bokonon invites us to sing:

Around and around and around we spin,

With feet of lead and wings of tin.

And wampeters come and wampeters go, Bokonon tells us.

At any given time a karass actually has two wampeters-one waxing in importance, one waning.

And I am almost certain that while I was talking to Dr. Breed in Ilium, the wampeter of my karass that was just coming into bloom was that crystalline form of water, that blue-white gem, that seed of doom called ice-nine.

While I was talking to Dr. Breed in Ilium, Angela, Franklin, and Newton Hoenikker had in their possession seeds of ice-nine, seeds grown from their father’s seed- chips, in a manner of speaking, off the old block.

What was to become of those three chips was, I am convinced, a principal concern of my karass.

The illustration of a mouse confessing to the cat at a church communicates a figurative message that can be interpreted in many ways. To draw a connection to the global issue and Cat’s Cradle, the image illustrates how people are willing to hide themselves away from the truth and choose to believe in a lie, regardless if it has the potential to harm them. This can be seen with the predator-prey relationship between the cat and the mouse being utilized to represent this message.