How does the conflict in “Harrison Bergeron” help communicate the author’s message? He uses several different conflicts to send several messages. The first message is that television basically numbs you to bad news. The second message is if everyone was the exact same, it would be terrible. Kurt uses this story to communicate these two messages. Kurt communicates the conflict of television numbing you through the actual society of Harrison Bergeron. In Harrison Bergeron, the television and the actual society show terrible events such as showing people being killed, handicapping talented people and other crimes, that is considered normal because of their handicaps. In today’s news they always talk about murders, police doing crimes and more.
