Reading Summary: Chapters 1-17 (Daniel)

In these chapters, the main plot events are:

1) Introduction to narrator (John), Newt, Angela, Frank, and Felix Hoenikker.

2) We are introduced to the religion of Bokononism, which belives that people are divided into teams, karasses, who carry out gods will without knowing the purpose.

Short Summary:

In these first few chapters, we discover that John is writing a book about the day the atomic bomb was dropped. He contacted newt, the son the of the physicist who worked on the Manhattan project. Newt then tells us a story of what his father was like. In the next few chapter,s we are introduced to Asa Breed, a friend of Felix Hoenikker's who tells us more about Frank and Angela, the other two children. The reading ends with this interview.