A world without diversity is a world of fairness and normality. The world would look boring and uninteresting. Similar to “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut is a story about a community that believes in similarity beyond compare. No one person is to be better than another, everyone must be the exact same. Vonnegut predicted by 2081 that everyone would finally be equal to one another once and for all. In this Vonnegut writes that if you are pretty or handsome you must wear a mask to make you ugly to match the ugliest person in town. Also if you were smart or talented you had to act like you knew nothing. Vonnegut portrays people who were athletic or could walk without a limp as better than others and were made to wear heavy waits to slow them down. During the story
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Girls I thought were prettier, more athletic, skinner and better at everything. I would try to convince my mom to take me to the expensive stores I saw they all shopped at. Hollister, Pink, Abercrombie, and so many more, but even then I still never felt like I was going to be as pretty. At that age I did wish all girls could be the same. I walk around school thinking I one day might be athletic, pretty, and skinny. If only I could wear the same clothes, workout, play a sport maybe I could be who I admired during those years. I still to this day want to look like other girls I see on tv, or in magazines the ones everyone idolizes.
Those images I had pictured are very similar to the narrator of “Harrison Bergeron”. I pictured a world where I could look like someone I admired. He pictured the world one day becoming a place where everyone was equal no one was better than anyone else. Everyone at some point in their life wishes the can look like someone else. The narrator and I as a kid just saw eye to eye on this situation. I now know that a world without differences is a boring place to
Girls I thought were prettier, more athletic, skinner and better at everything. I would try to convince my mom to take me to the expensive stores I saw they all shopped at. Hollister, Pink, Abercrombie, and so many more, but even then I still never felt like I was going to be as pretty. At that age I did wish all girls could be the same. I walk around school thinking I one day might be athletic, pretty, and skinny. If only I could wear the same clothes, workout, play a sport maybe I could be who I admired during those years. I still to this day want to look like other girls I see on tv, or in magazines the ones everyone idolizes.
Those images I had pictured are very similar to the narrator of “Harrison Bergeron”. I pictured a world where I could look like someone I admired. He pictured the world one day becoming a place where everyone was equal no one was better than anyone else. Everyone at some point in their life wishes the can look like someone else. The narrator and I as a kid just saw eye to eye on this situation. I now know that a world without differences is a boring place to