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    Both of the stories “Old glory’’ and “Harrison Bergeron” are science fiction and have a similar use of futuristic details.In “Harrison Bergeron” the author talks about science with now day technology that could be made in the future if the country wanted to.In “Old Glory” it talks about how they are change the rules of our freedom and taking more rights away from the citizens.In both stories people stand up for their rights and end up dead.In both of the stories the talk about how the united states

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    Harrison Bergeron The Cold War was a tough period in American History. Families constantly living in fear over what might happen next. Kurt Vonnegut lived through out the time period of the Cold War. In that time he wrote many pieces of work‚ one of which is “Harrison Bergeron.” This short story takes place in America 2081‚ where everyone is “equal.” Vonnegut relates his work back to the Cold War and the threat of Communism by using the symbolism of handicaps and total government control. “Nobody

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    Why is equality impossible? In both Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut‚ the government’s try to suppress freedom by calling it equality. Both the characters‚ Guy Montag and Harrison Bergeron try to oppose their government’s idea of equality. They show that there will always be individuals who rebel‚ are not the same‚ and try to start their own society to fight against the government. In these readings‚ both authors‚ Bradbury and Vonnegut‚ suggest that equality

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    Harrison Bergeron made a valid argument against conformity. Harrison was smarter than the average person‚ so the government came up with a way to make him equal‚ they placed headphones onto his head so that they would buzz to distract him and make him think like the average person. Harrison had a problem with this as the passage says‚ “Harrison smashed his headphones and spectacles against the wall” (Vonnegut 3). Harrison smashed his headphones and spectacles in anger because he was tired of being

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    Dystopian Society Essay (Harrison Bergeron) Everyone have his or her own idea of a dystopian society. A dystopian society is a world in which everything in a place or state is unpleasant or bad‚ normally a governmental or environmental degraded one. Harrison Bergeron is just that. Harrison lives in a society where everyone is equal. The government made everyone equal by making the middle class and middle class equal to the lower class using ‘Handicaps’. No one is stupider‚ uglier‚ weaker

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    United States sometime in the future. The people there have grown accustomed to a lack of choice in life. Their government has gone to the extent of removing winter and color from everyone in order to make everything and everyone the same. ‘Harrison Bergeron’ is a short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. In this world‚ anyone who excels in any aspect of life is forced to wear a handicap. For example‚ someone stronger than the weakest person in the human race will be weighed down by extra weights. Someone

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    Naive Need for Social Equity In his science fiction‚ satirical short story‚ “Harrison Bergeron” (1961)‚ Kurt Vonnegut presents a society in which all people are handicapped to be equal‚ normal‚ average‚ despite being born with different genetics and abilities to explicate the downfalls of the American people’s fear as well as need to be equal in Vonnegut’s time. He develops this ideal through a story about the Bergerons‚ who are presently watching an average ballet in a manner that is concise

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    The two stories that I chose for this first assignment were Harrison Bergeron (pg.198-202) written by Kurt Vonnegut‚ Jr.and The Story of an Hour (pg.279-280) written by Kate Chopin. Both stories that I read had 2 very different time periods from each other. The Story of an Hour was set in 1894 and it was about a woman that has heart problems and had just received news that her husband was dead. She went up into her room and started crying and was called by Josephine‚ her husband’s friend‚ to come

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    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

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    story Harrison Bergeron October 10‚ 2012 The book Divergent by Veronica Roth and the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut‚ has similar and different views on how they want their societies to function. In each of these stories‚ citizens both support and go against the governments’ expectations. The government in each of these stories has ways of overpowering their citizens‚ which is why Tris‚ the main character in Divergent‚ and Harrison‚ the main character in “Harrison Bergeron” rebel

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