Harrison Burgeron

Go on and rest the bag for a little while. I don't care that you're not equal to me for a while.
I don't mind it. I don't notice it anymore. It's just a part of me.
I mean-you don't compete with anybody around here. You just sit around.
If I tried to get away with it, then other people'd get away with it-and pretty soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else...
That's all right-he tried. That's the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard.
Harrison Burgeron, age fourteen, has just escaped from jail, where he is held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. He is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, as should be regarded as extremely dangerous.
Even as I stand here crippled, hobbled, sickened - A am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!
In Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut makes that point that individuality is important. He makes this point by using satire. In the story, society sees individuality as unfair advantages and uses things to restrict it. Society describes the times when people had individuality as the dark ages. Vonnegut uses satire to show the sad and restrictive world we would live in if everyone lost their individuality.#160;

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