30 pages 1 hour read

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Epicac

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1950

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Essay Topics

1.

How does the story characterize the “human condition?”

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Why does the narrator choose to end the story with the last line “De mortuis nil nisi bonum—Say nothing but good of the dead?

3.

Does the story create an image of love and marriage that you would hope for yourself or your friends? Why or why not?