Answer:
Vonnegut's intended audience is teens and adults, those who are willing and fighting to change things now and to come. Vonnegut's purpose to the story was to open the readers eyes to not "follow the leader". This is shown on page 303 as Harrison begins to rise up, "Even as I stand here..
The role of religion or religious people was motivated by the threat of losing the religious freedom.
Religious people in the provinces were worried about the possibility that that they would get just a solitary state permitted religion from the English Crown like France had done to Canada, so they upheld the defiance to abstain from losing their religious opportunity from which they as of now got away at any rate once.
Pulling because the dishwasher is moving in the opposite direction that you are facing and you’re exerting less force