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Harrison Bergeron: Compare And Contrast
The story of Harrison Bergeron in the book is better than the movie script. Both the movie and the short story share these themes; they also have multitude similarities, but also have just as many differences. The story move around a change that happens in the U.S that makes an age of inequality. There's also a huge contrasts between the book and the movie. The title is different in the movie and the book, the rolls of Hazel and Harrison have been changed and in the book Harrison was shot by the handicap general but in the movie he was shot by Diana moon. However, there are also some similarities such as that the both stories started in
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