Kurt Vonnegut was well-known worldwide for his novels, such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Hocus Pocus and others. But he also made a contribution to culture that wasn’t as well known. Maya Eilam made this graphic from Vonnegut’s rejected master’s thesis in anthropology on the shape of stories. “The basic idea of his thesis was that a story’s main character has ups and downs that can be graphed to reveal the story’s shape,” she writes.
