Cat’s Cradle (I was wrong it wasn’t like the song) The narrator of Cat's Cradle, John, once set out to write a book, titled The Day the World Ended, about the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. For purposes of research, he wrote to Newt Hoenikker, the midget son of Felix Hoenikker, the Nobel prize-winning physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. He asked Newt to describe what …showed first 75 words of 1289 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1289 total…body into the sea. All the water of the world became ice-nine within seconds. Shortly after the disaster, most of the island's survivors, including Mona, committed suicide. John, Frank, Newt, and the Crosbys survived for six months. John wrote this narrative, Cat's Cradle, as a record of what had occurred, while Newt painted, Hazel sewed, Lowe cooked, and Frank studied ants. Bokonon finished writing the Books of Bokonon, all the while commenting on human stupidity.