An Analysis of Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions Kilgore Trout is a struggling novelist who can only get his novels published in porn magazines. Dwayne Hoover is a fabulously wealthy car salesman on the verge of madness. They meet only once in their lives, but the entire novel, Breakfast of Champions (1973), is based on this meeting. The meeting is brief, but it's all author Kurt Vonnegut needs to get his message across. In fact, it is crucial that the meeting starts and ends almost instantly. It's the meeting of sanity and madness. Kilgore Trout is simply the novelist Vonnegut was when he was younger. Dwayne Hoover is the older, crazier man Vonnegut turned to. The meeting between the two is the exact moment in which Vonnegut transforms. The harmful chemicals will now pour into poor Dwayne's head. Trout has spent his whole life writing crazy novels, mostly about other planets and the crazy things that happen on them. He lives alone at home with only his parakeet, Bill, to keep him company. Most of what he talks about with Bill is about the end of the world very soon. “Whenever you want,” he said, “And also the right time” (p. 18). This is a product of Dwayne's theory that Earth's atmosphere would soon become "unbreathable" [sic] (p. 18) and kill all living creatures. This idea was crazy, but Kilgore does many other things that would seem eccentric to any normal person. Kilgore Trout's adventure begins when he receives a letter from Midland City. A man, Mr. Rosewater, wants her to come to their fine arts festival as an honored guest. Kilgore had no idea he even had a single fan. Enclosed is a check for one thousand dollars, which would help him for... half a paper... for life. The ink hold he has on Trout is now being released. It's almost like he's releasing the sane Kilgore and accepting the crazy Dwayne. Dwayne read Kilgore's novel and went on a violent outburst. He spent the rest of his life in an asylum. Kilgore became a world-famous writer. Vonnegut is a world-famous novelist, known for his wild and crazy novels. He seems to feel like he wasted the first part of his life in the novel, when he is Kilgore Trout. After meeting Dwayne she seems to have all her success and earn all her money. Kilgore confirms this at the end when he wants only one thing from his creator. He yells at Vonnegut as he disappears, "Make me young, make me young, make me young!" (p. 295)Work citedVonnegut, Kurt. The breakfast of champions. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell PublishingGroup, Inc. 1973.