Harrison Bergeron

As for being the year of 2081 and everyone is now equal, people need to have greater concerns rather than April not being springtime. The concern is which the citizens of this era are placed to be mentally or physically handicapped if they are perceived to be more intelligent or given a higher standard upon their physical shape or good looks. Who would want to have a handicap radio in their ear, carry bags of birdshot around your neck because you're allegedly more intelligent than people with a very short attention span. To put more upset in the go along with the month of April, this is when George and Hazel Bergeron's son Harrison was picked up by the Handicapper General's men. As for being tragic, Harrison's parents couldn't think about it to hard because his mother could only think in short bursts. This is defiantly not a good sign for people who have perfectly average intelligence since that's what she is considered. Now for George, Harrison's father, it's difficult to think when a mental handicap radio is in his ear and sends out a sharp noise every twenty seconds to ruin thought or concentration. Unless Diana Moon Glampers is sexually discriminating against males and beautiful young women by making George, Harrison, and ballerinas wear a tee pee full of tungsten since she is the Handicapper General and possibly unattractive. Otherwise, in "Harrison Bergeron", handicapping an individual's stature due to three Amendments of the Constitution is unconstitutional because it is violating the United States' permanent civil rights while at the same time eliminating competition since everyone is unlawfully thought to be equal, but the flaw of equality is attempting to make everyone alike because there are no similarities between dressing like a civil individual and a horror house clown, and nor would average intelligence resemble a persons brain that an electronic mechanism is tempering with.

The most meaningful point of view I perceived is that everyone is created equal though each individual has their own unique characteristics but by trying to change them in anyway it can confuse or manipulate their comprehensive or social skills. ""Boy!" said Hazel, "that was a doozy, wasn't it"" (244)? A statement she used after a twenty-one-gun salute went off in George's head. "It was such a doozy that George was white and trembling, and tears stood on the rims of his red eyes" (244). Objective point of view is used throughout the entire story to bring out detail and give more of a lifelike sense. It's a little harder to determine where the setting took place because I don't know how much the increase in United States' cities are estimated to grow within the next 74 years, but from gathering context clues I would say that they're in the northern states because ballerinas aren't as popular in the south as they are in the north, and they're close to Diana Moon Glampers, the United States Handicapper General, and anything having relations with national government is always nearby Washington DC. When Harrison escapes from jail it gives a light foreshadow to readers so they will be expecting something big