Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye, Blue Monday, written by author Kurt Vonnegut as a gift to himself on his fiftieth birthday, is a very complex novel. One of the themes of the novel is that the things people do are random and meaningless. Another theme of the novel explores the idea that human behavior is deterministic and automatic. These two themes are reflected in the two titles of the book. The primary title of the novel, Breakfast of Champions, was chosen by Vonnegut simply because he liked the way it sounded. Vonnegut alludes to this fact and to the Continue reading...