Harrison Bergeron

In the first couple paragraphs, we learn that the America of 2081 is a world with hundreds more rules and regulations than we have now.

Things start getting interesting when Hazel starts thinking about changes she would make to the rules if she were Handicapper General.

when Harrison escapes and storms the stage of the ballet. But Harrison goes above and beyond all expectations. In his few moments of freedom, he takes a ballerina as his Empress, frees her from her mask, and defies gravity by flying into the air and kissing the ceiling of the auditorium. Then he's shot dead by the Handicapper General, and everything's back to normal.

someone with above-average intelligence would watch to see what happened to his son, but not George. Hazel did watch what happened, but she soon forgets about it too.

nothing's changed. In fact, the story ends with a joke: Hazel repeating herself verbatim after George says "You can say that again" (Indeterminate)

Literary Terms In The Story

Foreshadowing: There were many examples of foreshadowing in this story. One example of foreshadowing was when Harrison took off his handicap. We as the readers know that something is going to happen because of this... a consequence for Harrison.

Irony: When Harrison got killed, her mother was really sad, and crying but when George asks her why, she forgets.

Symbol: Handicaps are a symbol of being locked away, the opposite of being free, trapped.

Imagery: “Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen” she said in a grackle squawk."

Point Of View

Third-Person

Plot Mountain

Archetypes In The Story

Falling Action

Rising Action

Climax

Character Archetype:

Hero: Harrison, Devil Figure: HG, Innocents: Hazel and George

Situational Archetype:

Battle between Good and Evil

Symbolic Archetype:

Heaven and Hell

Man vs. Society:

Harrison vs. Government

Exposition

Resolution

Motifs In The Story

Harrison Bergeron

• Noise
• The noises broadcast by the government increase in intensity and violence during the course of the story, paralleling the escalating tragedy of George’s and Hazel’s lives.

Art

They never think anything is better than the other its all the same. They don't believe in over powering each other in the day in age the story takes place

Weaknesses

Kurt Vonnegut

• You're kind of confused in the beginning of things. You get the fact that its a equal society but your lost on who some of the people are and why they are as important as they are

This is the author of the story. He published it in 1961. Since this was a short story it was published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Strengths

• Uses visualization
• He really makes you feel like you're in that type of society or how good it could be
• With the characters you can feel the emotion, you get to know who they are