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Mother Night

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Mother Night	comment	Mother Night is a 1961 novel by Kurt Vonnegut that tells of the life of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an expatriate American who moved to Germany with his parents shortly after World War I. Despite being an infamous Nazi radio personality and propagandist under Joseph Goebbels, Campbell is actually an author who writes sappy idealistic Medieval European Fantasy plays and spends all of his time obsessing over his wife; in actuality he has no interest in politics, the Nazi movement, its resulting World War II or anything besides his plays and wife. However, he's also a Double Agent under a minor division of the US and sends coded messages for reasons he doesn't even understand.note Several characters suggest he either did it out of his latent idealism, or more likely - he simply thought it was fun.Continuing indifferently even following his beloved wife's death, Campbell soon finds the war over, and himself a war criminal. Left in New York City by his recruiters without evidence to prove his innocence, Campbell spends 15 years surprisingly happy in almost isolation with his only friend, George Kraft. This changes when a white supremacist newspaper, which publicizes Campbell's history and current life, makes his past and crimes resurface again, attracting the attention of Israel and a number of old enemies who want justice.Made into a 1996 film directed by Keith Gordon (Back to School, The Chocolate War) and starring Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Alan Arkin, and John Goodman. It's quite faithful to the source material.Not to be confused with 'night, Mother.
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Mother Night / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Mother Night / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: In The Film of the Book, Kurt Vonnegut appears briefly as a by-stander who pauses to stare at Howard Campbell as the latter just stops and stands still on the sidewalk all day.
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Mother Night / int_12a59731	type	Goodbye, Cruel World!
Mother Night / int_12a59731	comment	Goodbye, Cruel World!: Not exactly a suicide note, but sort of. In the last chapter, Campbell describes that he got a letter from Wirtanen which would absolve him, but he decides to hang himself anyways. He ends the book with these words: "Goodbye, cruel world! Auf wiedersehen?"
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Mother Night / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Mother Night / int_1439161f	comment	Anti-Heroic BSOD: At one point, Campbell realises that there is precisely nothing he can do that won't make his situation even worse, and so simply remains standing on a New York sidewalk for hours, not moving a muscle.
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Mother Night / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Mother Night / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Vonnegut warns that Campbell is this in the novel's introduction. In the film, when he thinks back to his speeches, they're portrayed as halfhearted and undermined by his pauses - until he actually sees one with an audience of Nazis, and it's shockingly rousing.
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Mother Night / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Mother Night / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Campbell's ruse of posing as a Nazi propagandist while spying for the US worked so well that he became a hero to Neo-Nazis and a pariah to everyone else after the war.
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Mother Night / int_1b38f6b7	type	Shout-Out Theme Naming
Mother Night / int_1b38f6b7	comment	Shout-Out Theme Naming: While thinking of aliases to use on the run, Kraft suggests Don Quixote for Campbell, Dulcina del Toboso for Resi, and Sancho Panza for himself.
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Mother Night / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Mother Night / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: As is usually the case in Vonnegut novels, with an emphasis on how corruption, dishonesty, and political fanaticism have made the world so.
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Mother Night / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Mother Night / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: Both of Lionel Jones' marriages were to much older women but seems to have been happy ones. The first one was even enough to keep him away from his race-baiting ways while it lasted.
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Mother Night / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Mother Night / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Subverted. Bernard O'Hare, the American soldier who took Campbell prisoner at the end of the war, thinks he's Campbell's arch-enemy and that he's destined to hunt him down and bring him to justice. In fact, Campbell hasn't given him a second thought since the first time they met, and their second meeting ends with Campbell breaking his arm, kicking him out and giving him one hell of a "The Reason You Suck" Speech along the way.
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Mother Night / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
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Mother Night / int_3e95582f	type	The Greatest Story Never Told
Mother Night / int_3e95582f	comment	The Greatest Story Never Told: The premise of the book; Campbell, a deep-cover spy for the Allies, has been left with only his ruined reputation in New York City by the people he risked everything for.
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Mother Night / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Mother Night / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: The intended Aesop seems to have been Becoming the Mask is bad, but the text seems to spell out that all of Campbell's problems stem from him refusing to care about anything other than his wife and maintaining his staunch neutrality in the face of everything that happens around him and to him.
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Mother Night / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Mother Night / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: When Campbell is soon to be sentenced to death, he receives a letter from Wirtanen; in it, he goes against orders and vindicates Campbell of all blame. Campbell, however, decides freedom would be a less happy ending for a man who doesn't have a reason to live, and chooses execution anyway.
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Mother Night / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Mother Night / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Campbell to Bernard B. O'Hare near the end, after Bernard's long rant about how Howard is pure evil, possibly even the devil. Campbell's response also serves as a rant against blind faith and radical hatred.
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Mother Night / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Mother Night / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: While arguably the moral and the point of the story, since Campbell has no opinions or feelings on nearly anything, the disturbing conclusion is that there was nothing under the mask to begin with.
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Mother Night / int_4d1b485d	type	Dedication
Mother Night / int_4d1b485d	comment	Dedication: Campbell dedicated the book to Mata Hari, who "whored in the interest of espionage" like him. However, in a foreword, he writes that it should've been dedicated to someone less exotic and more contemporary. He ends up dedicating it to himself: "to Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a man who served evil too openly and good too secretly, the crime of his times."
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Mother Night / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Mother Night / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: The book explores how morally responsible Campbell was for his words and actions while posing as a Nazi collaborator, even if they were part of an espionage ruse.
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Mother Night / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Mother Night / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: The alliance between American Nazi white supremacist Dr. Lionel Jones, "black Führer" Robert Sterling Wilson, and Catholic priest Father Patrick Keeley.
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Mother Night / int_5ee6a992	type	Oh, and X Dies
Mother Night / int_5ee6a992	comment	Oh, and X Dies: We're told in the introduction that Resi Noth will die in Chapter 39.
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Mother Night / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Mother Night / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Campbell lived his entire life like this.
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Mother Night / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Mother Night / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: Subverted. Campbell provides a full biography for Lionel Jones "in order to contrast with myself a race-baiter who is ignorant and insane. I am neither ignorant nor insane." However, he then strongly implies that he considers himself to be worse than Jones, because Jones is crazy enough to believe in what he's saying, while Campbell said many of the same things despite knowing full well how wrong they were.
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Mother Night / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Mother Night / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: Campbell.
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Mother Night / int_6a3c49f	type	Direct Line to the Author
Mother Night / int_6a3c49f	comment	Direct Line to the Author: There are two introductions - one by Vonnegut that speaks about the book plainly, another where Vonnegut speaks as the editor of Campbell's autobiography.
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Mother Night / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Mother Night / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation Resi Noth pretends to be her sister, Helga.
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Mother Night / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Mother Night / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: What Campbell wanted when he turned himself over to the Israelis. He wasn't successful, and after realizing that he will be exonerated and released, he decides to do it himself.
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Mother Night / int_74c69a97	type	Nazi Protagonist
Mother Night / int_74c69a97	comment	Nazi Protagonist: Howard Campbell is one of "The Mole" variety. He is hired by an American agent to become a propagandist for the Nazi Party, running a radio show which contains encoded intel for the US. Unfortunately for him, the pro-Nazi messages he makes up end up being just as effective as real propaganda, and he ends up influencing many racists. The fact that his work was really for the US government has been lost, and he turns himself in to stand trial for war crimes. He's full of self-loathing as a result of his propaganda inspiring neo-Nazis, and thus plans to hang himself when the information to exonerate him is uncovered.
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Mother Night / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Mother Night / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Wirtanen only has to ask Campbell half of one to get his message through, but the full version is something like, "if Germany had won, had conquered the world - would you have done anything to fight the Nazis, or would you have just continued pretending to be one for the rest of your life?" Campbell has to admit that the answer is the latter, and that makes him realise that he really is a Nazi for all intents and purposes.
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Mother Night / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Mother Night / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: When Campbell first meets Kraft, the first thing they do is play a gentlemanly game of chess using pieces Campbell carved himself. Both are highly experienced players, and Campbell notes that he "was able to come up with enough intuitively interesting moves to give my new friend entertainment while he beat me."
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Mother Night / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
Mother Night / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: Howard Sterling Wilson "The Black Fuhrer of Harlem." He willingly associates with white Neo-Nazis who despise Black people.
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Mother Night / int_7d04af5f	type	Completely Off-Topic Report
Mother Night / int_7d04af5f	comment	Completely Off-Topic Report: The The American Nazi Lionel Jones was thrown out of dental school, because his examination papers all devolved into detailing how the teeth of Jews and black people "proved beyond question that both groups were degenerate."
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Mother Night / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Mother Night / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Campbell gives one to Bernard O'Hare after breaking his arm in self-defense. Campbell says that people like O'Hare, who fanatically believe that they're on the side of the angels while their opponents are devils, are the reason the world is as screwed up a place as it is.
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Mother Night / int_7dae20c8	type	Sex Is Good
Mother Night / int_7dae20c8	comment	At the end of the introduction, Vonnegut adds two further morals: "When you're dead you're dead." and "Make love when you can. It's good for you."
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Mother Night / int_7e043a42	type	Suicide Is Painless
Mother Night / int_7e043a42	comment	Suicide Is Painless: Despite a letter from Wirtanen proving his innocence, Campbell accepts he still has nothing left to do with his life, and decides to hang himself anyways.
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Mother Night / int_8c23b321	type	Harmless Villain
Mother Night / int_8c23b321	comment	Harmless Villain: The American Nazis who give Campbell their unwanted and counterproductive support are portrayed as such abject failures that they inspire nothing but pity, in spite of their horrific beliefs. Their collective Establishing Character Moment shows that at least two of them are so decrepit that they can't even make it up a flight of stairs without stopping to rest every few steps.
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Mother Night / int_967856d8	type	Hired to Hunt Yourself
Mother Night / int_967856d8	comment	Hired to Hunt Yourself: Arpad Kovacs, a Jew who managed to pass as Aryan and rise to a high position in the Nazi Party, was put in a special detachment to find who was leaking information to the Jews about S.S. activities. The leak, of course, was Kovacs himself.
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Mother Night / int_9b7de69c	type	False Friend
Mother Night / int_9b7de69c	comment	False Friend: Heinz, Campbell's best friend, was a member of the Jewish underground who hates him enough to testify against him. Also, Kraft and Resi are Communists (but the latter falls for Campbell instead).
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Mother Night / int_9d0f2549	type	Public Secret Message
Mother Night / int_9d0f2549	comment	Public Secret Message: This is how Campbell passes on information to the Americans. One of his editors is given a list of things they want him to find out about the Nazis, and after he finds them out he annotates Campbell's speeches with, say, a cough in the middle of a certain sentence if the answer is "yes," or a word he wouldn't otherwise use, etc.
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Mother Night / int_9f81bd21	type	Stealth Parody
Mother Night / int_9f81bd21	comment	Stealth Parody: What Campbell hoped he would be, but he ran badly afoul of Poe's Law.
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Mother Night / int_a7defafd	type	Code Name
Mother Night / int_a7defafd	comment	Code Name: "Blue Fairy Godmother" is the code name of Campbell's contact with the U.S. War Department.
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Mother Night / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Mother Night / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Inversion. Campbell becomes a spy, but possibly more because he found it entertaining than out of a sense of good or loyalty.
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Mother Night / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Mother Night / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Campbell.
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Mother Night / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Mother Night / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Bernard O'Hare, the soldier who captured and beat up Campbell after the war, makes it his life's goal to find Campbell and kill him with his bare hands once he discovered that Campbell was alive and free in the US. Unfortunately for O'Hare, he's no longer the lean, mean fighting machine that he was when he first encountered Campbell (in fact, he's a frail, pathetic drunk), and when O'Hare finally succeeds in finding his enemy, Campbell breaks his arm in self defense and throws him out of his apartment.
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Mother Night / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
Mother Night / int_b53c57d5	comment	Epigraph: A quote about patriotism from Walter Scott's poem "The Lay of the Last Minstrel":
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Mother Night / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Mother Night / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The title comes from a translation of Goethe's Faust.
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Mother Night / int_c87e2665	type	One-Tract Mind
Mother Night / int_c87e2665	comment	One-Tract Mind: The American Nazi Lionel Jones. He was thrown out of dental school, because his examination papers all devolved into detailing how the teeth of Jews and black people "proved beyond question that both groups were degenerate."
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Mother Night / int_e15138cf	type	Mysterious Protector
Mother Night / int_e15138cf	comment	Mysterious Protector: Frank Wirtanen, the American who made Campbell a spy during the war, takes this role in Campbell's life after the war, showing up out of nowhere and helping him out of trouble. The only reason he fails is because Campbell doesn't care much about being saved.
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Mother Night / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
Mother Night / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: Subverted, when Campbell confesses to the Jewish American doctor neighbor he wanted to turn himself in with his and his Holocaust survivor mother's assistance after his true identity is exposed to them, the neighbor initially vehemently denies his request and shuts the door in his face. The neighbor would have left him to continue his suffering with his guilt as a Karma Houdini, but after an argument with his mother, in which the neighbor believes that Vengeance Feels Empty as his mother wants to bring justice for her and her fellow comrades, the mother ensures Campbell's Karma Houdini Warranty and contacts her Nazi Hunter acquaintances to take Campbell in.
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Mother Night / int_e63d04b6	type	Sub-Par Supremacist
Mother Night / int_e63d04b6	comment	Subpar Supremacist: Lionel Jones and the other Neo-Nazis who seek out Campbell's support and friendship are pathetic and ridiculous rather than menacing. One of them was so frail that he died of a heart attack after walking up a flight of steps, another is a black man who likes dressing up in Nazi regalia and calls himself "The Black Fuhrer of Harlem".
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Mother Night / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Mother Night / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Campbell takes up this role during the war, secretly conveying messages for the American agents through his Nazi broadcasts. Whether or not he does so out of "goodness" however, is a different matter.
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Mother Night / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Mother Night / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: Campbell, mostly neutral and silent on American politics and society, suddenly bursts out with revulsion at the conversion of Armistice Day to Veterans' Day. Vonnegut, in Breakfast of Champions, made it quite clear that Campbell's reaction mirrors his own.
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Mother Night / int_f55e0154	type	True Neutral
Mother Night / int_f55e0154	comment	True Neutral: Campbell, so much so it's explained In-Universe. He cares about his art and his wife and their "Nation of Two", and no one and nothing else.
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Mother Night	hasFeature	Flock of Wolves / int_af9ecae8
Mother Night	hasFeature	Hired to Hunt Yourself / int_af9ecae8
Mother Night	hasFeature	Internal Death Squad / int_af9ecae8
Mother Night	seeAlso	Mother Night
Mother Night	hasFeature	Nazi Protagonist / int_af9ecae8
Mother Night	hasFeature	Public Secret Message / int_af9ecae8
Mother Night	hasFeature	Sub-Par Supremacist / int_af9ecae8
Mother Night	hasFeature	Thinking Wheels / int_af9ecae8

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