BREAKFAST OF CHAMPONS- KURT VONNEGUT In Brandon Boyd’s “Make Yourself” he states that “ if [he] hadn’t assembled [himself] that [he] would’ve fallen apart,” implying that if one does not take the time to understand and build his or her own values and morals that one will live in confusion and falter. Throughout Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions, Kilgore Trout goes through the process of realizing who he is and then learns to …showed first 75 words of 646 total…

…showed last 75 words of 646 total…is, but when faced with questions about himself and why people do what they do, it forces him to take a minute, step back and take a look at the big picture. While doing so he does not only learn to form his own opinions and ideas but also realizes who he is and why he does what he does. So as it starts out being about humans it ends up being about Trout himself.