2br02b Kurt Vonnegut Analysis

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Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “2BR02B” a doctor named Dr. Hitz came up with the idea of population control to solve the world’s problems. A man named Edward Wehling Jr. is in the hospital because his wife is having triplets. In order for the family to keep the babies, they must find three volunteers willing to die to maintain the population, because the government is controlling the right for the citizens to have however many babies they want to have. The power of the government is described by prohibiting overpopulation.
The government enforces the law by limiting the number of offspring, taking away individuality, and encouraging suicides.
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Initially, the government limits the amount of offspring that a family can have. Dr. Hitz explains

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