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THE HOENIKKERS (FELIX HOENIKKER (IDENTITY -- Nobel prize winning…

- - - - “Maybe in a million years everybody will be as smart as he was and see things the way he did. But, compared with the average person of today, he was as different as a man from Mars.”
        (Vonnegut 73).
        
        “After the turtle incident, Father got so interested in turtles that he stopped working on the atom bomb. ” (pg 20).
        
        “Why should I bother with made-up games when there are so many real ones going on?” (Vonnegut 15).
        
        NEWT HOENIKKER
        
        RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FATHER
        
        Communication -- “Not only had he never played with me before; he had hardly ever even spoken to me.” (Vonnegut 41)
        "I just kept saying over and over again how ugly he was, how much I hated him.” (Vonnegut 20)
        
        Transformation - “And Soviet Russia had come by it through Newt’s little Zinka, that winsome troll of Ukrainian ballet.” (Vonnegut 301).
        
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        RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS SISTER
        
        Identity and Transformation - “Angela persisted in treating Newt like an infant — and he forgave her for it with an amiable grace I would have thought impossible for one so small.”
        “Newt did? How could Newt remember anything?” She turned to him. “Honey, you don’t remember anything about that day, do you? You were just a baby.”
        “I remember,” he said mildly.” (pg 140)
        “And then the saint marched to Newt’s painting and took it from its easel. He beamed at us all. “Garbage — like everything else.And he threw the painting off the cantilevered terrace. It sailed out on an updraft, stalled, boomeranged back, sliced into the waterfall.There was nothing little Newt could say.”
        “You’ve got paint all over your face, honey. Go wash it off.” (pg 209).
        
        ANGELA HOENIKKER
        
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    - - Identity -- “He was visited there by “Papa” Monzano, who wanted to know if it were possible that Frank was a blood relative of the immortal Dr. Felix Hoenikker.” (Vonnegut 109).
        
        Transformation - “This unattractive child was identified as Major General Franklin Hoenikker, Minister of Science and Progress in the Republic of San Lorenzo." (Vonnegut 109)
        
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      - RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FATHER
        
        Communication - “I found my brother Frank under a big spiraea bush. Frank was twelve then, and I wasn’t surprised to find him under there. He spent a lot of time under there on hot days. Just like a dog, he’d make a hollow in the cool earth all around the roots. ” (pg 18).
        “ ‘He won’t come,’ Frank said, and he laughed at her. Frank was right. Father stuck his head out a window, and he looked at Angela and me rolling on the ground, bawling, and Frank standing over us, laughing. ” (pg 21)
        
        “And the last we heard of my brother Frank, he was wanted by the Florida police, the F.B.I., and the Treasury Department for running stolen cars to Cuba on war-surplus L.S.T.’s.” (pg 23)