Compare And Contrast Harrison Bergeron And All Summer In A Day

The stories, “Harrison Bergeron” and “All Summer in a Day”, both portray humanity’s reactions to people’s differences as being negative and being disliked. In “Harrison Bergeron” humans with differences greater than that of the average human is, as a result of attempted equality, controlled by the government using handicaps. The story “All Summer in a Day” however, takes place on the planet of Venus where the rain only stops once every seven years. As a result, all of the children do not have any memories of the sun, except for one, Margot. She had more recently moved to the planet from Earth and has memories of the sun. Both of these stories’ portrayals of human’s reactions to differences between people are cruel, unequal, and extreme. To