Harrison Bergeron Summary

Harrison is a wanted criminal. In “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut is a story about Harrison Bergeron. He was sent to jail because he didn’t have his handicaps on. When his parents George and Hazel were watching a ballet show on tv, but it was interrupted will an important news bulletin. Saying that Harrison has escaped from jail. It showed a picture of him on the news of what he looked like with all his scrapmetal on him. These paragraph will be about Harrison, George, and one of the ballerinas.
George Bergeron is the father of Harrison Bergeron and a husband to Hazel. George has handicaps in his ears so if he has a certain thought in his head the handicaps make a noise to make that thought disappear. “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” (Vonnegut 1 ). The government doesn’t want anyone to think of anything for too long. They think the citizens will throw them over, and become their own government. George has an over average intelligence so he has to where a handicap. “George is more intelligent and so he has a mental handicap …show more content…
He was put in jail for not having on his handicaps. “Scrap metal was hung all over him. Ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking junkyard.” (Vonnegut 3)Harrison had handicaps weights, and a hideous nose, and long hair that was untamed. “Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen… has just escaped from jail, where he held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. HE is a genius and an athlete, is under handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous.” (Vonnegut 3)Harrison wanted to make the world the way it once was. He didn’t want to hurt anyone. He wanted the world to not be told to be the same, and everyone should be

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