Preview

Short Story Of Harrison Bergeron: The Handicapper General

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
414 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Short Story Of Harrison Bergeron: The Handicapper General
The year was 2081 and it was not like our 2017. All the people were equal and no one was any smarter or any prettier. The government made sure of that, they controlled everything that all the people did in their lives. The lady in charge was known as the Handicapper General. The government placed devices on all the people that were smarter or prettier than the average person. Some of them where placed with mask to cover their faces, and things worn around their necks, large glasses that distorted their vision. The government wanted everyone the same.

It was April and that's when the government came and took Harrison Bergeron from his parents home. His parents Hazel of average smarts and then the dad George who was smarter than her. George
Continue Reading
View Writing Issues

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Powerful Essays

    Case Analysis: The Tennessee Vs. Lane Case
    • 1499 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Case Analysis: The Tennessee Vs. Lane Case

    Before 2004, courthouses and other public buildings differed from how they are today. There was one thing that these buildings did not have, a handicapped entrance. At this time, it could be very embarrassing to be handicapped because you could do nothing for yourself. If you wanted to enter a public building, you had to ask someone to carry you in, or even worse, you might have to crawl up stairs to enter! This was a definite problem that had been around for years, however, no one addressed it.…

    • 1499 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
    Read More
  • Better Essays

    Carl Eugene Watts Research Paper
    • 1102 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Carl Eugene Watts Research Paper

    1955. Two years old, his mother moves to Detroit. Carl grows up with his grandmother.…

    • 1102 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Compare And Contrast The Lottery And Harrison Bergeron
    • 487 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Compare And Contrast The Lottery And Harrison Bergeron

    The stories I have read: "The Lottery", "Never" and "Harrison Bergeron" all can be similar by one certain theme. I believe that theme would be change. All of these stories' characters needed change in their lives. In "Never" the main character was hopeless and felt trapped and unhappy with her life. She needed to change this routine by seeing the world in a better light or leaving her past behind and catching the train mentioned in the text. In "Harrison Bergeron", the main character, Harrison fights for the right of being individual and change the law that is enforcing it. The traditions may be needed to change in "The Lottery" as innocent people were stoned to death for getting the wrong slip of paper.…

    • 487 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Uniforms In The Short Story Of Harrison Bergeron
    • 282 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Uniforms In The Short Story Of Harrison Bergeron

    As stated on page 1, handicaps have been made to take away so call advantages that some people have. As stated by the author, a Handicapper General was…

    • 282 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    How To Be Handicapped In Harrison Bergeron
    • 213 Words
    • 1 Page

    How To Be Handicapped In Harrison Bergeron

    If Leslie were to be handicapped in the location of the short story “Harrison Bergeron” one of his handicaps would be a hover-board. The hover-board will be strapped to Leslie’s feet so he can move at the same pace as everyone else. Leslie will need the hover-board because he is a very fast runner. Leslie is also a focused person so he will need a pair of glasses that would distract him. Every now and then something will appear on the lenses until Leslie loses his train of thought, the pop up on the lenses could be as simple as a pickle or as random as a dancing hippo. Leslie is also very good at computer programming but in an equal society he can not be better than anyone. Leslie would need to wear small boxes on each finger so every time…

    • 213 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Harris Bergeron & by the Waters of Babylon
    • 814 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Harris Bergeron & by the Waters of Babylon

    In the story, Harrison Bergeron, one learns that the author, Kurt Vonnegut, does not like the way society is. He does not like how people judge one another because one is not as attractive, or smarter, or funnier. He portrays this idea into the story by creating a society full of people that are equal. For example, in the beginning one gets to know that George is actually really intelligent as was all Hazel, but not as much as George. George cannot be smarter than Hazel or anyone, so to control the way he thinks he has to wear a mental handicap that receives different sounds to scatter his thoughts (Vonnegut, p. 34). Although, many people are fine with the way this society is being ran, in one section George explains to Hazel what would happen if he took his handicaps off then he will not be equal with everyone else, it is not fair to Hazel either because she has to keep wearing hers, “And pretty soon we’d be right back to the dark ages again…”(Vonnegut, p. 37). However, Harrison Bergeron, a 14 year-old boy, does not agree with this. “Now watch me come what I can become!” (Vonnegut, p. 39). He believes people should not be equal and be able to use the skills others do not have. On page 39, Harrison storms in and announces he is the emperor, and then he chooses his Empress and removes the handicaps from her and himself. Harrison does not want to be ruled by someone but rule himself; he wants to change the way things are being ran in this town.…

    • 814 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Harrison Bergeron: A Tough Period Of The Cold War
    • 317 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Harrison Bergeron: A Tough Period Of The Cold War

    “Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else,” everyone was equal (Vonnegut 1199). A handicap is something that hinders ones abilities in anyway. In this story many…

    • 317 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Symbolism In The Lottery And Harrison Bergeron
    • 383 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Symbolism In The Lottery And Harrison Bergeron

    All these stories “The Lottery”,”2BRO2B”,and”Harrison Bergeron are all really good stories to read.All of the stories have a lot of symbolism in them.Some of the stories will be kinda creepy and some will be funny.…

    • 383 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Harrison Bergeron: A Threat To Society
    • 271 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Harrison Bergeron: A Threat To Society

    “I am the Emperor!” cried Harrison “do you hear? I am the Emperor! everybody must do what I say at once!” page 3. This quote from the story is one of the he things that Harrison did that makes him a threat to society in the story “Harrison Bergeron” where everyone is equal in the year 2081. Harrison is a threat to the society based in the story. So in this essay I will tell you why Harrison is a threat to Society in the story “Harrison Bergeron”.…

    • 271 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Conformity In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron
    • 267 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Conformity In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron

    In short story “Harrison Bergeron” Kurt Vonnegut uses symbols and hyperbole to show how conformity isn’t better. Their society's solution to equality is to change the people who have unique attributes and make them the same as the average person. Vonnegut uses the handicaps to show how equality isn’t better and how their government fails to make everyone equal. They try to force individuals to change so they are conforming and no one will compete against each other. If you are above average you have a handicap, so it is obvious you are superior in some way. Vonnegut shows the characters are aware of this when George thinks “the ballerina… must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous”(Vonnegut, Kurt “Harrison…

    • 267 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Metaphors In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron
    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Metaphors In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron

    In “Harrison Bergeron,” individuals are expected to conform to society. People are downplayed and anticipated to meet the lowest standards of society. For example, no one is smarter, better looking, stronger, or quicker than anybody else (1554). If an individual is deemed not average, then they are given a handicap. The protagonist in Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” is considered dangerous and a threat to the government. He bears heavier handicaps than everybody else in his society. He wears big earphones, glasses with thick wavy lenses, and scrap metal that hangs all over him. At the end of the short story, Harrison strips himself of all his handicaps. By stripping himself of his handicaps, Harrison is breaking the chains of his government and defying the laws.…

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    How To Make It Equal To Harrison Bergeron Essay
    • 555 Words
    • 3 Pages

    How To Make It Equal To Harrison Bergeron Essay

    It’s 2081 in the United States and the Handicapper General is forcing people to wear handicaps that make them equal...but are they really equal? People in 2081 were given handicaps to make them equal. Except some people could do something, when others couldn’t, even with their handicaps. The people in the short story “Harrison Bergeron”, are NOT equal.…

    • 555 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Harrison Bergeron Equality
    • 508 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Harrison Bergeron Equality

    Everyone is equal, and the year is 2081. In Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s Harrison Bergeron, everyone is equal in every way, not just before the law and God. To make everyone equal the United States Handicapper General issues handicaps to citizens to suppress their abilities to make everyone have the same mental and physical capabilities. This equality moves all people, except those who work for the United States Handicapper General, from the bourgeoisie class and into the proletariat class, and causes conflict between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.…

    • 508 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Harrison Bergson
    • 350 Words
    • 1 Page

    Harrison Bergson

    One example of society not being equal is that no matter what anybody may do to a person to change them, they wont truly change unless they are willing, a genius with a handicap is still a genius, meaning that he or she would not truly be equal to an average person. For instance as George and Hazel Bergeron where watching television, Georges ear piece goes off with a 21 gun solute and the narrator states "...George was white and trembling and tears stood on the rims of his red eyes" (209). That ear piece does not make George equal to any average person, all it does is scramble his thoughts and cause him pain and will probably make him eventually go deaf. If George is feeling pain, then everyone else should too, because it is not equal for any one person to feel pain but it would be equal if everyone felt it. Although his thoughts may be scrambled in his head, that does not change that he is intelligent. Another example is when Harrison escaped from jail, one of the ballerinas had to make the announcement of his escape and the narrator states "And she had…

    • 350 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Harrison Bergeron Satire
    • 482 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Harrison Bergeron Satire

    The society in this satire, Harrison Bergeron, is based on the principle of everybody being equal. Physically and mentally, so no one person is any better or worse at any activity. The author is mocking the aspects of actual societies with the whole plot of the story. People never want to be any worse at something than the people they’re with. Nobody wants to lose a competition, but by making everybody equal, that also means that nobody will win a competition.…

    • 482 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More

Related Topics