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- After a long, dreadful struggle, everyone was finally in the year of 2081--or so you thought. People who more intelligent or attractive than others had to bear the consequences of wearing an unflattering mask or sash weights.
- At age 14, Harrison was taken away from his parents because he had an above average intelligence and became considered a danger to society.
- Harrison escapes and enters the studio while declaring "Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once!"
- While the Emperor and the Empress were in the middle of performing their dance, the handicapper general shoots and kills both of of them
- You been crying
- As this unfolds on television, Hazel gets upset but cannot remember why.
- In his story "Harrison Bergeron", Kurt Vonnegut makes the point that total equality comes with flaws in its implementation. The method of achieving total equality in the story includes torture among citizens executed by the government, which is extremely dangerous. The concept of a society that strives to achieve perfection destroys what makes people unique; strength, looks, intelligence, etc. The message portrayed is that people must keep their individuality.
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