George's intelligence was way above average yet he had a little mental handicap radio in his ear.
Hazel had an average intelligence. Which meant she couldn't think of anything for long periods of time.
He began to think about his abnormal son who was now in jail, about Harrison, a twenty-o-ne-gun salute in his head stopped that.
Why don't you stretch out on the sofa, so you can rest your handicap bag on the pillows, honey. I don't care if you're not equal to me for a little bit.
If I tried to get away with it, said George, then other people will try to get away with it, and pretty soon we'd be in the dark ages all over again, where everyone is competing against everyone.
I am the Emperor! cried Harrison. Do you hear? I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once! He stomped his foot and the place shook.
Harrison and his Empress merely listened to the music for a while- gravely, as through synchronizing their heartbeats with it.
I believe that Kurt Vonnegut wrote this short story as a way to show how crazy and wrong it can be to try and fit in. When people hold themselves back from what they are truly capable of, it can make like simple and boring. These scenes show that. In result of the Government, in this case, wanting everyone to be the same in everything, Harrison goes crazy because he believes it is only fair to be yourself. Trying to make everything equal and fair can cause rebellion and other disruptions.
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