Book of My Creation

If you were to start writing a novel, what would be the basis for your work? Vonnegut obviously chose his war experiences but seems to have tied them into a somewhat laissez faire view of life. What do you feel the public should learn through your story-telling? Explain the genre, character types and / or general plot of a book that you would write.

If I were to write a novel, the basis of my work would be about the issue of outsourcing.  Outsourcing is becoming an economic problem for the first world countries, and is a solution for the second and third-world countries.  Big businesses and companies are always looking for a way to make more money and they believe that they found their answer in outsourcing.  Outsourcing is when big companies make all their products in countries where pay is cheaper and sell them to us.  This takes away hundreds of thousands of jobs away from our economy and gives it to other countries, where they could be using sweat shops.

The outline of my story would include a wealthy business that wants to increase their revenue out of pure greed.  This company looks for a way to save money in the production of their products by firing workers, wage cuts, but nothing works and finally they discover outsourcing.  The company closes down their plants in North America and open shops in China and Africa.  The workers in North America being to strike looking for better treatment from the company, but to no avail.  The novel will then go on to describe the effects that occur to these workers.  The reason that I chose this topic is because like Slaughterhouse-Five these novels talk about events that are happening on a daily basis but people do not necessarily realise it or fully understand it.  Like Vonnegut’s topic of war, outsourcing also has traumatic effects on families and the world.  That is why if I were to write a novel it would be about outsourcing.