Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., is a story taken place in the year 2081 when everyone in the United States and possibly the world. No one is better than the other but those who are must wear ugly masks to hide their beauty. In addition, people who are intelligent must wear these “mental handicap radio” which sets different loud sounds to stop them from “taking unfair advantage of their brains” and forget what they were recently thinking. George and Hazel Bergeron are the main characters of this story and Harrison is their son, who was taken away to prison because people were crazy in the month of April. Harrison’s parents were watching ballerinas dance until the news interrupted the show to explain that Harrison escaped prison and
