Theme: Population control requires suffering.

In 2BR02B society has different norms to things that can naturally harm being completely eradicated.
People in the story have been trading old lives for new ones due to population controls immoral
normalities. When Dr. Hitz was trying to change Mr. Whelings opinion on population control in the
hospital during the morning, Wheling told him, I dont want my grandfather to die, either (Vonnegut
6). Because of this shameful style of life, families like Mr. Whelings, suffer just to keep their
descendants alive.
When people in the story do not believe in population control they are looked upon like cretins.
Because of this people do not care about others opinions and the health of their relatives. In the
passage when Dr. Hitz was talking to Mr. Wheling in the hospital during the morning, Dr. Hitz
discovers that Mr. Wheling does not believe in population control, You do not believe in population
control Mr. Wheling? (Vonnegut 6). Since Mr. Wheling does not believe in population control Dr. Hitz
thinks of him as a simpleton.
In the end of the tragic story the protagonist kills the main antagonists and himself. Since Wheling had
killed himself because of population control his wife and his father suffer in the end. At the end of the
story when Dr. Hitz finished talking to him about life before population control, at the hospital, during
the morning Mr. Wheling did this: Wheling shot Doctor Hitz dead (Vonnegut 7). Because of the of
the murder the painter then philosophized about life, then he decided to kill himself, but he couldn't do
it until he went to the phone and dialed 2BR02B.