Not only does Enzo know he is knocking on heaven's door, he embraces his death, because all Enzo's life, he has longed to be human and ever since watching a T.V. The story begins as Enzo experiences a rapid decline in his health. Vonnegut makes this clear at the beginning of Mother Night: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.The Art of Racing in the Rainis narrated by the inner voice of a wise terrier-mix named Enzo, who lives in Seattle with his owner and personal hero, Denny Swift. He tells the reader he is going to hang himself. Howard’s lawyer sends him a letter promising evidence that will secure his release, but Howard does not want it.
Howard feels disconnected from his life again and decides to turn himself in to the Israeli government, which had been pressuring nations believed to be harboring war criminals. Although Resi continued swearing her love for him, she had been working with Kraft in order lure Howard into Moscow during an FBI raid where he was taken into custody again by Wirtanen while Resi committed suicide Together they planned on escaping Jones’ unwanted notoriety until Wirtanen again intervened on behalf of Howard. The publisher was eager to involve Howard in his organization and presented him with a woman claiming she was Helga but actually her sister Resi, whom previously confessed having feelings for Howard. In order to further Russia’s cause, Kraft deliberately leaked news of Howard’s continued existence to an American white supremacist newspaper publisher who outed Howard by celebrating his anti-Semitic past. Howard recounts all of this from a future perspective where he can now realize that Kraft had lied to him. He uses his real name because so few people recognize it as the famous Nazi propagandist, and he has only one friend who happens to be a spy for the Russians. Even though Howard isn’t convicted (Wirtanen actually sabotages the case against him), he is smuggled to New York where he must live in relative secrecy. Howard maintains that he doesn’t know what information he passed to the Americans via coded messages in his broadcasts, but it was all passed to him by people he never met or interacted with in any other ways. He continues doing this until he is picked up by Americans and reveals that his only reason he wasn’t convicted of high treason was because Wirtanen intervened on his behalf and because Howard worked as an American agent throughout the war. Howard rises through the ranks of the British propaganda machine, producing anti-Semitic messages for broadcast. While searching for her (and whether she is dead or alive), Howard spends a lot of money trying to find out where she went however, despite putting forth all this effort into finding her, he never does locate her again after WWII ends and they’re both released from their respective prisons/detention centers/etc… Helga eventually disappears while performing for German troops in Crimea during World War II (during her time away from home). However once Hitler starts rising to power in Germany (in the late 1930s), Howard’s parents decide to leave while he decides not because of a love for politics or nationhood but because of his relationship with Helga-he describes their relationship as being like one “nation,” which is separate from any other country or political organization. His father worked for General Electric at first and only within the US, but eventually moved the family to Germany when Howard was 11 years old. Howard then goes on to talk about his personal life, starting with when he was born in Schenectady, New York on February 16, 1912. He says it was built recently and that there are several guards who watch over him. Howard begins by describing the prison he’s held in. It gave him an opportunity to write down his experiences so others could learn from them. He says it’s hard to know where to begin his tale because he doesn’t remember much from when he was young however, he knows that the war changed him forever. The narrator is Howard telling his own story about life before, during and after World War II. Campbell Jr., who also appears briefly in one of Vonnegut’s other novels, Slaughterhouse-5.
Mother Night, a novel by Kurt Vonnegut published in 1961 and set in that year, is presented as the memoir of Howard W. 1-Page Summary of Mother Night Overall Summary
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