Harrison Bergeron Satire Project
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- Sounded like somebody hitting a milk bottle with a ball peen hammer. (pg. 2)
- Hazel saw him wince. Having no mental handicap herself, she had to ask George what the latest sound had been (Vonnegut, Kurt 1).
- George winced. So did two out of the eight ballerinas (pg. 1) they were watching on television.
- He began to think glimmeringly about his abnormal son who was now in jail, about Harrison, but a twenty-one-gun salute in his head stopped that. (pg. 2)
- Boy! That was a doozy, wasn't it?
- Two of the eight ballerinas had collapsed to the studio floor, were holding their temples. (pg. 2)
- The television program was suddenly interrupted for a news bulletin. It wasn't clear at first as to what the bulletin was about, since the announcer, like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment. (pg. 3)
- Laa... aad..ieeess. Aaaaa...n...ddd... Gjee..
-                    Vonnegut uses this to ridicule people who believe equality will answer all the issues in society. As he displays, this equality brings only more pain. Everyone being equal means no one can take advantage of others, but they also cannot improve society. These communistic ideals that all should be equal, lend themselves to government corruption or tyranny. In that society, no one has the chance to succeed or better themself because everyone is stuck in a sort of half-life. The elite are the only ones that benefit. They have power because they are the enforcers of the law. The people bowed to them to enforce equality and are now subject to equal servitude.
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