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    walked away from Omelas" is that to achieve happiness‚ one should not be sacrificed for being neglected by others. The irony here is Omelas seems like a great‚ happy town; however they treat this feeble-minded child horribly. In short story "Harrison Bergeron"‚ the government has altered society to be mentally‚ physically and socially equal. The beautiful people are covered with hideous masks. The society is not equal because no one can truly be changed unless they want to be. Putting a handicap

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    banana leaves for their supper” (Danticat 72). For instance‚ in the 1800s through the 1900s industrialization and immigration brought poverty new kind and on a new scale to Eastern European immigrants. Danticat meets the same circumstances as Harrison Bergeron‚ being placed in a government control and determining to be free under a communist government “Near the sugar mill was a large television screen in a iron grill cage that the government installed so the shantytown dwellers could watch the state

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    If someone in our society enforces a strict school uniform are they really any better than the leaders of the dystopian society we read about in novels? Is the president of the school district any different than the president in Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut? Both believe they are creating an equal environment that will have a positive impact. The fact is though that none of these dystopian societies last very long and if they do‚ they are not very efficient. In novels such as The

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    Vonnegut Jr.’s Harrison Bergeron and Orwell’s 1984 are based on the concept of negative utopia. The governments in both these novels control their masses using harsh methods. The government in 1984 uses brainwashing‚ doublethink‚ mutability of the past and vaporization to control its masses. The government in Harrison Bergeron uses physical and mental handicaps to control its masses and in the effort to make everyone equal. Both the governments have a tight control on its people but the government

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    polar opposite however‚ a dystopian society‚ is a society where everything from freedom and justice has completely become irrelevant‚ where everything is undesirable and frightening. One source that will be used is Kurt Vonnegut’s short story; Harrison Bergeron which has very contrasting themes depending on individual perspective. The thing with these societies is that more often than not‚they are based around individual perspective. Much like journalism and overall modern media‚ perspectives will revolve

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    Mumsie and Zip 1. The idea of power/superiority in a relationship is evident in this short text in which one person has complete control over the other and the relationship. The author shows the idea of power in the text in which zip results to violence to get his point across. ‘The sound of Mumsie’s head striking the wall echoed in the kitchen’. Zip does this to show that his word is final and the he doesn’t like to be revolted against by Mumsie. She did this by arguing that her sister and her

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    there is oppressive societal control‚ no one will ever have the right to think outside of the box. Everyone will be forced into an unnaturally equal society where curing cancer is too abnormal to be accepted with open arms. Kurt Vonnegut wrote “Harrison Bergeron‚” in which people are forced to wear handicap harnesses in order to diminish any differences one possesses to another. An article states‚ “... the sports term handicap. It refers to a way to even up a game so that good‚ average‚ and poor players

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    the time so you don’t break the laws‚ or you have to stay in your house to make sure there is no chance of an injury. In the stories “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut‚ and “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury‚ the technology causes the people to not experience the real world around them because of the consequences that may happen. In the story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut‚ it shows the meaning of true equality.

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    read. Don’t worry about writing your theme in "fancy" language; use your own words to capture the larger message in the story.Write a possible theme for the novel here:The importance of the individual.Name another book that has this theme.Harrison Bergeron by Kurt VonnegutHow do you know that it has this theme? List some details from the book. In the book Jonas is going to leave his home his family and his friends to do what must be done in order to enlighten the rest of the community the giver and

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    In “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut the year was 2081 and everyone was finally equal. The story’s theme is that total equality is not an idea worth trying to accomplish. This mistaken goal would be dangerous in execution and outcome. Equality would not make everyone one perfect‚ but everyone as weak as they could be. In order to accomplish total equality‚ the government would need to torture everyone by making everyone wear handicaps. This is shown by saying” the unceasing vigilance of agents

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