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Harrison Bergeron, The story demonstrates how trying to make everyone…
Harrison Bergeron
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ASSIGNMENT
In your Assigned Groups find
- as many examples of your assigned topic as possible.
- Find QUOTES to support your example
- Analyse your quote - why does it work as support?
- Don't change anybodies work. Keep your virtual hands and feet to yourself :)
Kenzie, Maddy, Samarah, Anthony
In “Harrison Bergeron,” Vonnegut suggests that total equality is not an ideal worth striving for, as many people believe, but a mistaken goal that is dangerous in both execution and outcome.
When the story begins, a buzzer sounds in George's head as he watches the ballerinas on T.V. When he thinks about his son, he is interrupted by the sound of twenty-one guns firing, an excessively violent noise that foreshadows Harrison's murder.
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It's the main point of a story. like don't judge a book by its cover or don't shoot the messenger boy
Harrison represents the spark of defiance and individuality that still exists in some Americans. He has none of the cowardice and passivity that characterize nearly everyone else in the story. Rather, he is an exaggerated alpha male, a towering, brave, breathtakingly strong man who hungers for power.
Harrison Bergeron is the symbol of a new society, of the way it should be. He achieves impossible heights (literally) when he is free from his handicaps, much like society as a whole would if its handicaps were removed. Harrison Bergeron is also very virile. He's "seven feet tall" and very strong and handsome.
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Group: Gwen, Kyle, Raelyn, Mckenzie Satire, Irony, sentences and Word Choice
Gwen - Irony: The government impairs people to make them equal but even then Harrison can break his limiters and escape captivity showing how some peoples natural talent can't be limited and it shows great irony,
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Gwen - Word choice: "If it greatness we must destroy, then let us drag our enemy out of the darkness."
the word choice here is amazing it sets the tone really well and displays how even the purest ideals can be executed poorly
The story demonstrates how trying to make everyone equal only makes everyone less equal. The more handicaps you need, the more people can tell you're better, and making everyone equal doesn't make the world any better
"Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime."
With all the equality, some things about the world just still aren't right
"And it was easy to see that she was the strongest and most graceful of all the dancers, for her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred pound men."
Visually, you can tell people are better/worse than you, even though they are physically equal to you, you still see them differently
"And she had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use. Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody. “Excuse me — ” she said, and she began again, making her voice absolutely uncompetitive."
Even though she apologized for her voice, it was still warm and luminous, so her voice was still unequal
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