Harrison
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- And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicapradio in his ear. Every twenty seconds, the transmitter would send out a sharp noise to keep George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
- Hazel had aperfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in shortbursts. 
- A police photograph of Harrison Bergeron was flashed on the screen-upside down, then sideways, upside down again, then right side up. the rest of Harrison's appearance was Halloween and hardware. Instead of a little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses. the H-G men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball fora nose.
- George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. But he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts.George winced. So did two out of the eight ballerinas.Hazel saw him wince. Having no mental handicap herself, she had to ask George what the latest sound was
- "Why don't you stretch out on the sofa, so's youcan rest your handicap bag on the pillows, honeybunch." She was referring to the forty-sevenpounds of birdshot in a canvas bag, which was padlocked around George's neck. "Go on and restthe bag for a little while," she said
- "Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen,has just escaped from jail,where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. He is a genius and anathlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous."
- In his story "Harrison Bergeron," Kurt Vonnegut makes the point that society is going to progressively get dumber. People are all going to conform to the same way of living and there will be no differentiation among the people. The government is gonna try to control the "smart people" so that the real secret of conforming to the world won't be let out.
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