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    farm is an allegoric novel which has a very interesting story to it. The story is about animals in a farm and the owner “Mr. Jones”. Animal Farm allegorizes the rise to power of the dictator Joseph Stalin. In the movies “Animal Farm” and the Harrison Bergeron film they have rules some rules of equality they share and the bill of rights is a set of rules ensuring our freedom and helping us have some more privileges that can’t be taken away or changed unlike animal farm where Napoleon changes the rules

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    Fahrenheit 451 Socratic Circle What does the phoenix symbolize‚ and why? In Fahrenheit 451 the phoenix symbolizes mankind. The phoenix symbolizes this because the human race puts itself in bad situations‚ then comeback and corrects the mistakes. As Granger described the phoenix “He must have been first cousin to man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes‚ he got himself born all over again.”(Bradbury‚ 156). Mankind burn themselves to ashes but then they get back up and learn

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    era. Harrison‚ from Kurt Vonnegut’s‚ Harrison Bergeron ‚ is forced to suffer because he is much smarter than other people. He ends up showing people what they can truly become. Jonas and Harrison have the bravery and audacity to stand up against their society only because they both know what is right‚ think differently than conventional people‚ and they have an inner strength. Their valor is gained from these three attributes. Jonas and Harrison’s wisdom and their virtuous

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    Harrison Bergeron & Examination Day In both‘Harrison Bergeron’‚ written by Kurt Vonnegut and‘Examination Day’‚ written by Henry Sleasar an important idea is Totalitarian and Fascistic control. Today’s society can relate with this idea because of the things happening in Syria. But not just through the law but in societies every thought and actions‚ even if they have a kid‚ their smartness looks and strength. If you’re pretty we’ll hide your beauty. If you’re strong? Then you get burdens. If you’re

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    ideals are needed. In order for a perfect society to thrive‚ its inhabitants must have one idea of perfection. However‚ there will always be someone who will go astray and believe otherwise because apparently‚ if a person is able to hold unto individuality‚ many others will as well. In the nineteenth

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    Science Fiction essay Science fiction writers clearly find that controlling governments can be dangerous and that these governments attempt to control by limiting information and knowledge. Firstly‚ in the “The Obsolete Man‚” the government controls books by getting rid of them and controls religion by destroying of the idea of God. The Chancellor stated “ ‘The state has proven there is no god.’ ” (The Obsolete Man). In addition‚ the people in “There Will Come Soft Rain‚” the family was having

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    One thing that interests me most about metaphor and how you take something little or even play full but then relate it to this big amazing concept or problem in everyday life. I enjoy how metaphor can relate completely unrelated thing like in the Sylvia Plath poem how she compares eaten a bag of green apples to pregnancy‚ apples and pregnancy are nothing alike but she makes u see the similarities. for my primary source I would like to do a poem by Shel Silverstein he has been one of my favorite

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    and way of life are different from what we would find normal. All the literary works demonstrate a society unlike ours including: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Brave New World by Aldous Huxley‚ “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ “Harrison Bergeron” by Harrison Vonnegut‚ “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury‚ Anthem by Ayn Rand‚ 1984 by George Orwell‚ and Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. In every dystopian society‚ there is an outcast who does not agree with the government. Dystopian

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    world significantly. People’s differences and interests lead to new developments which are being made every day. However‚ when a population is suppressed and limited in their abilities‚ these things become unachievable. We see this in the story Harrison Bergeron when we are introduced to a society believed to be greatly improved by using “handicaps” to limit people’s abilities to ensure everybody

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    society who is brainwashed to believe that knowledge is wrong and everyone has to be equal to eliminate an emotion other than happiness. They take the Constitution of the United States and exploit it to their benefit. We see something similar in “Harrison

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