A Man Without a Country Study Guide

In the first essay, Vonnegut begins this book by discussing humor, its importance in his life, and its importance to the world in general. At first, he describes his youth. As the youngest child in a family of intellectual talkers, he always wanted to jump into the conversation, but even as a child he knows the rest of the family (his father, mother, older brother, older/sister) are not interested in his childish days. (read more)