Harrison Bergeron Project- Reagan Krupicka
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- The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.
- And it was in that clammy month that the Hand Hazel Bergeron's fourteen year old son, Harrison, away. H-G men took George It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear.
- That was a real pretty dance, that dance they just did
- That dance-it was nice.
- Yup.
- Huh.
- For about half a minute, and in a state of high excitement, the announcer tried to say, "Ladies and Gentlemen." He finally gave up, handed the bulletin to a ballerina to read
- It's all kind of mixed up in my mind.
- What is it?
- Forget sad things.
- I always do.
- In his story “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut makes the point that forced equality is not true equality. There is an illusion of freedom and a loss for the importance of memory. in order to place everyone upon a level plane, the brilliant, the creative, the talented must be hidden away. In other words no one is special in their own unique way.
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