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  • The television program was suddenly interrupted by 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. 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 (Vonnegut,3).
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  • The rest of Harrison's appearance was Halloween and hardware. Nobody had ever born heavier handicaps. He had outgrown hindrances faster than the Ha little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of earphones and spectacles with thick wavy lenses. The spectacles were intended to make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches (Vonnegut,4).
  • In this story, Vonnegut makes the point that an all entirely equal society would eventually fall and that all men were not created equal on earth, even if they are equal in the eyes of God. He establishes this by creating a scene where everyone is handicapped for the purpose of being equal, but some cheat the system and break out, which results in their death. This shows that in that society if you did not want to be entirely equal with your peers that you would die. Each person was forced to fit the narrative that society followed so that they would all be considered equal. Vonnegut uses this idea to ridicule those who try to push for absolute equality. Although we should treat each other equally and be equal in SOME aspects, Vonnegut knew that everyone had a different role to play in society and that if everyone had an equal role and view, the world would never improve.
  • Clanking, clownish, and huge, Harrison stood in the center of the studio. The knob of the uprooted studio door was still in his hand. Ballerinas, te cowered on their knees before him, expecting to die(Vonnegut,4).
  • "I am the Emperor!" cried Harrison. "Do you hear? I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once!" He stamped his foot and the studio shook. "Even as I stand here" he bellowed, "crippled, hobbled, sickened, I am the greatest man who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!" (Vonnegut,4).
  • Harrison tore the straps of his handicap harness like wet tissue paper, tore straps guaranteed to support five thousand pounds. Harrison's handicaps crashed to the floor. Harrison thrust his thumbs under the bar of the padlock that secured his head harness. The bar snapped like celery. Harrison smashed his headphones and spectacles against the wall. He flung thunder. away his rubberball nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor (Vonnergut,5).
  • It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double gauge shotgun. She fired twice, and the Emperor and the Empress were dead before they hit the floor(Vonnegut,5).
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